Bhubaneswar, Feb. 17 -- Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh today faced the ire of netizens after he posted an incorrect tweet on Odisha freedom fighters martyred at Eram in Bhadrak district in pre-Independence era.

The saffron leader took to the micro-blogging site where he tweeted about his day-long trip to the coastal district.

He mentioned about paying rich tributes to freedom fighters - Gopabandhu Das, Madhusudan Das, Buxi Jagabandhu and Veer Surendra Sai - who fell to the bullets of Britishers at Eram on September 28, 1942. However, the flawed tweet irked the netizens as the eminent freedom fighters did not die in the incident called as the second Jallianwala Bagh massacre of India.

Besides, the name of the pl...