Barely a week after the session ended, a Calcutta newspaper, The Indian mirror, wrote, the first national congress at Bombay forms an important chapter in the history of British rule in India.

It is also a violation under the National Honour Act. "This is the way how the Congress celebrates its historic CWC session by distorting the map of India, not showing PoK as part of Indian territory.

"This map is paired with Mahatma Gandhi's image ... Belagavi to mark the centenary celebrations of the 1924 Indian National Congress session presided over by Mahatma Gandhi.