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The Congress top brass has been acutely embarrassed by Wednesday's fiasco at the Delhi airport when a group of party workers and supporters present to receive actor-turned-politician Sunil Dutt ended up garlanding Shabir Shah, a separatist leader from Jammu and Kashmir.
Sunil Dutt is a Congress Member of parliament while Shabir Shah heads the J&K Democratic Freedom Party.
The incident is a serious embarrassment for the party.
Senior Congress leaders from Delhi have been asked to explain why party workers failed to recognise their own MP and that too, one as well known as Sunil Dutt, a party source said on Thursday morning.
Understandably, Delhi Congress Committee office bearers refused to go on record on the incident even as they claimed that it was a 'genuine mistake'.
"We did not know that Shabir Shah was also travelling by the same plane as Sunil Dutt. Shah was the first to came out of the airport and was immediately surrounded by newspersons. In the confusion, some enthusiastic supporters garlanded him without even verifying his identity," one Congress leader admitted.
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