{"id":13942,"date":"2018-06-07T23:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=13942"},"modified":"2018-07-09T16:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:26:55","slug":"photo-from-farmers-protest-in-maharashtra-shared-with-false-claim-targets-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/photo-from-farmers-protest-in-maharashtra-shared-with-false-claim-targets-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo from farmers’ protest in Maharashtra shared with false claim, targets Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis Nagpur Congress neta snatched milk from poor Farmers & spilled it on road. He also abused & threatened police men when they try to stop him\u201d <\/em>tweeted Rishi Bagree, a serial faker repeatedly caught spreading misinformation. Bagree has shared a photograph showing a person spilling milk on the road and using abusive language against the police during a farmers’ protest in Maharashtra which has gone viral on social media. In his tweet, he has alleged that this person is a Congress leader. At the time of writing this article, Bagree\u2019s tweet has been retweeted more than 900 times. The tweet from this account @rishibagree<\/em>\u00a0which is followed by PM Modi has been shared by multiple accounts.<\/p>\n

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This Nagpur Congress neta snatched milk from poor Farmers & spilled it on road .
\nHe also abused & threatened police men when they try to stop him pic.twitter.com\/T93ncTrFIR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rishi Bagree \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@rishibagree) June 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Posted by \u0917\u094d\u0930\u0947\u091f \u0928\u0930\u0947\u0928\u094d\u0926\u094d\u0930 \u092e\u094b\u0926\u0940<\/a> on\u00a0Monday, 4 June 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Multiple pages also had shared the same image with the exact text claiming that the protest was backed by Congress leaders and the party workers had coerced the farmers to join the protest\u00a0by spilling their\u00a0milk. The image was also shared more than 24000 times so far from another Facebook page \u0935\u093f\u0927\u093e\u0928\u0938\u092d\u093e \u0915\u094d\u0937\u0947\u0924\u094d\u0930 \u0915\u0938\u0930\u093e\u0935\u0926 BJP<\/a> (Assembly Area Kasrawad).<\/p>\n

While a number of BJP leaning accounts have shared this image claiming the person is a Congress leader, a Twitter user\u00a0Shumbham Amdhare<\/a> countered this claim and said that the person in the photo is Prashant Pawar, an MNS leader from Nagpur.<\/p>\n

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This Hate Monger @rishibagree<\/a> spreading Lies by targeting Congress without have knowledge .
\nMen in this pic is Prashant Pawar MNS leader from Nagpur
\nBJP IT cell can share anything to target Cong
\nBe aware
\nCc @free_thinker<\/a>@ameytirodkar<\/a>@Awhadspeaks<\/a> @jencyjac<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/vbLEYaRLTm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Shubham Amdhare (@shubhamamdhare) June 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alt News compared the viral image with a photograph of Prashant Pawar and found that the two match. Prashant Pawar was the\u00a0Deputy City Chief of Nagpur for MNS. He quit the party two years back, and is currently the director of\u00a0Jai Jawan Jai Kisan,<\/em>\u00a0an\u00a0NGO\u00a0working for farmers’ rights.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Prashant Pawar in a conversation with Alt News regarding the allegation raised about his political allegiance said, “I have no links with Congress except for being an NSUI student leader in 1984 and I have also left MNS from two years. These BJP goons don’t know how to respond farmer’s\u00a0protest hence they are linking it with a political party. Our NGO is fighting for the farmers’ rights from last five years”. <\/em>Moreover, Nagpur Today<\/em>, a local News website based in Nagpur also confirmed that Prashant Pawar is an ex MNS leader and has no political links with Congress.<\/p>\n

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He is Prashant Pawar, ex-mns leader, no way connected to Congress, can google his name for truth..<\/p>\n

\u2014 Nagpur Today (@nagpurtoday1) June 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the source story published by ANI<\/a>\u00a0made no reference to political parties and leaders, it reported that a 10-day protest was organized by Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh<\/em>, a farmers’ organisation. These are the images of the 4th day of protest when the farmers spilled their\u00a0milk produce on the road in protest against Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh’s recent remark<\/a> on the agitation.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x26VHtOt5DY<\/a><\/p>\n

Misinformation of this nature is usually part of a systematic political campaign that plays out on a daily basis on social media. In this instance, the Congress party has been targeted by the pro-BJP ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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