New Delhi, Sep 7 (PTI) Former Union minister and BJP leader Vijay Goel on Thursday termed "fake news" a social media post about the G20 Summit shared by the Congress' Pawan Khera, and said the opposition party should desist from "petty politics".

Earlier, Khera had shared a picture on social media platform 'X' purportedly showing a hoarding with a larger image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as compared to other world leaders.

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Responding to the Congress leader, Goel wrote on X, "This is fake news. No such hoarding has been put. Congress should desist from such petty politics at a time when India is hosting the world."

Khera later deleted his post. Many other social media influencers also posted the same image on 'X', training guns at Goel.

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