Posters in Kerala’s Idukki district, put up by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers to announce a party meeting, featured North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, The Times of India reported.

Soon after, photographs of the posters got widely shared on social media on Sunday. The party then ensured they were taken down. A district party leader told The Indian Express the error was made at the regional level “as local workers had put the posters up”.

Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Sambit Patra was one of the first to tweet about the poster: “Jong-un finds place in CPM’s posters in Kerala! No wonder they have converted Kerala into killing fields for their opponents!”

The Congress, meanwhile, said the Communist party was “unsure of what they want to represent”. “It’s ironic that CPI(M) worships Kim Jong-un and abuses Rahul Gandhi, who wants to form a larger secular platform against Sangh forces in the country,” Congress legislator VT Balram told The Times of India.

However, one CPI(M) leader defended the posters saying the North Korean leader was the only “communist leader who dares to challenge US President Donald Trump. “He’s a die-hard fighter against American imperialism which has killed thousands while playing the role of the world’s cop. For us, that is the important thing,” district secretariat member PN Vijayan told The Times of India.