{"id":102803,"date":"2021-09-08T14:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T08:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=102803"},"modified":"2021-09-08T14:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T08:52:42","slug":"aaditya-thackerays-2019-photo-cherry-picked-to-falsely-portray-muslim-appeasement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaditya-thackerays-2019-photo-cherry-picked-to-falsely-portray-muslim-appeasement\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaditya Thackeray’s 2019 photo cherry-picked to falsely portray ‘Muslim appeasement’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photo of a billboard featuring Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray has been shared by BJP members and supporters to show him ‘appeasing’ the Muslim community. The billboard has a picture of Thackeray on a green background waving to people and a text in Urdu (\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0648\u0631\u0644\u06cc) that translates to ‘hello’. Below is a tweet by BJP national media panellist Charu Pragya.<\/p>\n

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From Saffron to Green.
\nFrom Marathi to Urdu.
\nFrom Shiv Sena to \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..?<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2640\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/ciMiQ9pZLO<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Charu Pragya\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@CharuPragya) September 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another user wrote that Thackeray is bidding farewell to his Marathi identity.<\/p>\n

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\u092e\u0930\u093e\u0920\u0940 \u0905\u0938\u094d\u092e\u093f\u0924\u0947\u0932\u093e \u092d\u093e\u0935\u092a\u0942\u0930\u094d\u0923 \u0936\u094d\u0930\u0926\u094d\u0927\u093e\u0902\u091c\u0932\u0940\ud83d\udc90\ud83d\udc90 pic.twitter.com\/ZZaSGnhRl9<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \u091f\u092e\u0930\u0947\u0932 \u0924\u094b\u0902\u0921\u092f\u093e (@tamrel143) September 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The image is massively widespread on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Misleading narrative<\/h4>\n

A reverse-image search of the photo takes one to an article published by News18<\/a> in 2019 about Aaditya Thackeray filing his nomination papers for the Maharashtra polls in Worli. The article has pictures of the billboard in question and other similar billboards with different background colours and texts in varied languages reading ‘hello’. The one in Gujarat reads ‘Kem Cho Worli’ while the Telugu and Hindi texts say ‘Namaste Worli’.<\/p>\n