Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh and the party’s Nandigram MLA Suvendu Adhikari, paying their respects on Thursday on social media to the pioneer of Bengali novels Peary Chand Mitra on his 207th birth anniversary, posted the picture of acclaimed fantasy-fiction author Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar instead.

The same mistake by the duo who have hardly seen eye to eye since Adhikari’s star rise in the party became a talking point. “Finally, Dilipda and Suvendu are on the same page...They made the same mistake,” said a BJP insider.

“I pay my tributes to the first novelist of Bengali literature, Peary Chand Mitra, on his birthday,” Ghosh wrote on his Facebook page.

Adhikari tweeted: “My tributes to the author who introduced Bengali prose. Famously known by his pseudo name; Tekchand Thakur, fondly remembering Peary Chand Mitra on his birth anniversary.”

Netizens commented that the posts had Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar’s picture, which was later removed.

This joins the list of BJP blunders such as Union home minister garlanding a tribal statue and calling it that of freedom fighter Birsa Munda, BJP national party chief J.P. Nadda referring to Swami Vivekananda as Vivekananda Thakur, Ghosh crediting Iswarchandra Vidyasagar with penning Sahaj Paath, and the Bengal BJP’s Twitter handle posting Visva-Bharati as Rabindranath Tagore’s birthplace and attributing the statement to Nadda.

Ghosh told this paper that it was done from the office and did not come to his notice. “It was an uncommon picture,” he added. Adhikari did not take calls from this paper. Bengal BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya took this paper’s call but refused to comment.