

{"id":1294,"date":"2017-03-20T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T06:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2017-03-20T11:41:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T06:11:44","slug":"mission-whitewash-yogi-adityanath-rahul-kanwal-gaurav-sawants-turn-normalise-adityanaths-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mission-whitewash-yogi-adityanath-rahul-kanwal-gaurav-sawants-turn-normalise-adityanaths-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Whitewash Yogi Adityanath: After Rahul Kanwal, it is Gaurav Sawant&#8217;s turn to normalise Adityanath&#8217;s past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mission to whitewash Yogi Adityanath with active support from prominent news anchors is in full steam now. Yesterday, we wrote about Rahul Kanwal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/rahul-kanwals-views-donald-trump-vs-yogi-adityanath-textbook-case-two-facedness\/\" target=\"_blank\">hypocritical stand<\/a> wherein he describes Trump&#8217;s bigotry as a &#8216;dangerous landmine&#8217; but wants people to give Yogi Adityanath &#8216;a chance&#8217; and &#8216;judge him only for his work&#8217;. Following in the footsteps of Rahul Kanwal, now Gaurav Sawant has tried to do his bit by propagandising as to how Yogi Adityanath should be judged only for his actions henceforth. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mission-whitewash-yogi-adityanath-rahul-kanwal-gaurav-sawants-turn-normalise-adityanaths-past\/selection_20_03_2017_002\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1295\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_002-1024x696.jpg\" alt=\"Yes!The selective outrage brigade is out all guns blazing: playing judge, jury &amp; executioner. @yogi_adityanath shud be judged on actions now\" width=\"640\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_002-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_002-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_002-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_002-696x473.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_002-1068x726.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_002-618x420.jpg 618w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_002.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gaurav Sawant is asking us to forget all of Yogi Adityanath&#8217;s &#8216;actions&#8217; in the past and only judge him for his &#8216;actions&#8217; in the future. He is asking us to forget how Yogi Adityanath said things like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/watch-yogi-adityanaths-hate-speech-agar-woh-ek-hindu-maarenge-100-ko-hum-bhi\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;If &#8216;they&#8217; kill one Hindu, we will kill 100 of &#8216;theirs'&#8221;<\/a>. Forget how a co-speaker asked for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/rally-adityanath-says-hindu-muslim-cultures-can-never-co-exist-co-speaker-asks-raping-muslim-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">Muslim women to be taken out of graves and raped<\/a> while Yogi Adityanath was on the stage in a program organised by his organization Hindu Yuva Vahini. Forget how in yet another hate-filled speech, Adityanath said that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/yogi-adityanath-agar-ek-hindu-ka-khoon-bahega-kam-se-kam-10-aise-logon-ki-hatya-karvayenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">If one Hindu is killed, we will not file an FIR, but kill 10 of &#8216;theirs&#8217;<\/a>&#8220;. Following Sawant&#8217;s effort to ask us to forget all the venom spewed by Yogi Adityanath, he quotes a random Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mission-whitewash-yogi-adityanath-rahul-kanwal-gaurav-sawants-turn-normalise-adityanaths-past\/selection_20_03_2017_003\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_003-1024x634.jpg\" alt=\"Fact on ground Vs Lutyens selective outrage industry. They don&#039;t let facts interfere with their narrativea\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_003-1024x634.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_003-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_003-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_003-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_003-696x431.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_003-1068x661.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_003-678x420.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/Selection_20_03_2017_003.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He claims that whatever this random Twitter account is claiming are &#8216;facts on ground&#8217;. Moreover, all the <strong>real<\/strong> videos that are being posted by people are not &#8216;facts on ground&#8217; but just a &#8216;narrative&#8217;, and apparently a misplaced one at that. Alright, probably we shouldn&#8217;t judge when Yogi Adityanath says &#8220;If they take one Hindu girl, we will take 100 Muslim&#8230;.&#8221;. When Yogi Adityanath claims in a speech that Hindu and Muslim culture cannot co-exist and a religious war is inevitable, it is &#8216;just a narrative&#8217; and not a &#8216;fact on ground&#8217; about Yogi Adityanath&#8217;s real beliefs. Following this a BJP member\/supporter&#8217;s views are passed off as the general view. Notice the prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/htTweets\/status\/843420836367282177\" target=\"_blank\">encircled lotus symbol<\/a> on the person&#8217;s shirt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mission-whitewash-yogi-adityanath-rahul-kanwal-gaurav-sawants-turn-normalise-adityanaths-past\/gaurav-sawant-bjp-member\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/gaurav-sawant-bjp-member-717x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Do not listen to this man. He spoils the Lutyens narrative of Muslims are scared with Yogi Adityanath as UP CM\" width=\"640\" height=\"914\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/gaurav-sawant-bjp-member-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/gaurav-sawant-bjp-member-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/gaurav-sawant-bjp-member-768x1098.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/gaurav-sawant-bjp-member-696x995.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/gaurav-sawant-bjp-member-1068x1526.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/gaurav-sawant-bjp-member-294x420.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/gaurav-sawant-bjp-member.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, Gaurav Sawant wants us to believe that the account of one BJP member\/supporter and one random Twitter account are &#8216;real facts&#8217;, all the hate spewed by Yogi Adityanath in speeches after speeches for 15 odd years is just a misconstrued narrative. While Gaurav Sawant and Rahul Kanwal were busy asking us to forget Yogi Adiyatnath&#8217;s past, BJP&#8217;s social media team in parallel was also trying to do their bit by running copy-paste Twitter trends and trying to project Adityanath as the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samjawed65\/status\/843491777101385729\" target=\"_blank\">next &#8216;Vikas&#8217; guru<\/a> in the lines of Narendra Modi. Mission Whitewash Yogi Adityanath is ON.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1298\" style=\"width: 527px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mission-whitewash-yogi-adityanath-rahul-kanwal-gaurav-sawants-turn-normalise-adityanaths-past\/bjp-copy-paste-tweets\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/bjp-copy-paste-tweets-527x1024.jpg\" alt=\"BJP running copy paste twitter trends to show how Yogi Adityanath is a hero\" width=\"527\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/bjp-copy-paste-tweets-527x1024.jpg 527w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/bjp-copy-paste-tweets-154x300.jpg 154w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/bjp-copy-paste-tweets-768x1494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/bjp-copy-paste-tweets-696x1353.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/bjp-copy-paste-tweets-1068x2077.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/bjp-copy-paste-tweets-216x420.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/03\/bjp-copy-paste-tweets.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images courtesy @samjawed65 on Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission to whitewash Yogi Adityanath with active support from prominent news anchors is in full steam now. Yesterday, we wrote about Rahul Kanwal&#8217;s hypocritical stand wherein he describes Trump&#8217;s bigotry as a &#8216;dangerous landmine&#8217; but wants people to give Yogi Adityanath &#8216;a chance&#8217; and &#8216;judge him only for his work&#8217;. Following in the footsteps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mission Whitewash Yogi Adityanath: After Rahul Kanwal, it is Gaurav Sawant&#039;s turn to normalise Adityanath&#039;s past - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mission Whitewash Yogi Adityanath: After Rahul Kanwal, it is Gaurav Sawant&#039;s turn to normalise Adityanath&#039;s past - Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The mission to whitewash Yogi Adityanath with active support from prominent news anchors is in full steam now. 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