Farhan is portrayed as milkha singh in west bengal text book

Later in a tweet, Derek O’Brien replied the education minister told him that the book was not for a goverment schools neither it is published by the government.

Hindi film actor Farhan Akthar has asked the state government to make changes in a textbook which has used his photograph in place of Olympian Milkha Singh. The photograph is from the 2013 movie “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag”, where the actor played the athlete.

Posting a picture of the textbook which has his photograph, Akthar tweeted, “To the Minister of School Education, West Bengal. There is a glaring error with the image used in one of the school text books to depict Milkha Singh-ji. Could you please request the publisher to recall and replace this book? Sincerely”.

Later in a tweet, Derek O’Brien replied the education minister told him that the book was not for a goverment schools neither it is published by the government. “… Checked with Education Min of State. He tells me it isn’t a text book for government schools. Nor is it published by government. Trying to track the private publishing company. They ought to correct the mistake in future editions,” he tweeted.