{"id":146925,"date":"2023-02-10T18:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=146925"},"modified":"2023-02-11T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T09:43:46","slug":"muslim-woman-shouting-slogans-against-opposition-leaders-is-bjps-nighat-abbass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/muslim-woman-shouting-slogans-against-opposition-leaders-is-bjps-nighat-abbass\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral video: Muslim woman shouting slogans against Opposition leaders is BJP&#8217;s Nighat Abbass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 44-second clip that shows a group of people from the Muslim community chanting slogans of &#8216;Bharat Mata Ki jai&#8217; and &#8216;Azadi&#8217; is viral on social media. The people, led by a woman in burqa, shout slogans targeting Opposition leaders. They chant &#8216;Rahul Gandhi se azadi&#8217;, &#8216;Akhilesh se lenge azadi&#8217;, &#8216;Mamata didi se azadi&#8217; etc.<\/p>\n<p>BJP member Arun Yadav posted this clip on Twitter and wrote, \u201c&#8230;These people want freedom from Rahul Gandhi \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 They should be helped.\u201d This video gained over 12,000 views. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230210074848\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/beingarun28\/status\/1217521837778731008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archived link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u0905\u092c\u0947 \u0928\u0908 \u091a\u0940\u091c \u0939\u094b \u0917\u0908 \u0930\u093e\u0939\u0941\u0932 \u0917\u093e\u0902\u0927\u0940 \u0938\u0947 \u0906\u091c\u093e\u0926\u0940 \u091a\u093e\u0939\u093f\u090f \u0907\u0928 \u0932\u094b\u0917\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 \u0907\u0928\u0915\u0940 \u092e\u0926\u0926 \u0915\u0940 \u091c\u093e\u090f\ud83d\udc4d\ud83d\udc4d\ud83d\udc4d\ud83d\udc4d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FeWFpSpJwj\">pic.twitter.com\/FeWFpSpJwj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arun Yadav \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@beingarun28) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beingarun28\/status\/1217521837778731008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BJP leader from Delhi Ravinder Gupta also shared this clip. He wrote, &#8220;\u0905\u091a\u094d\u091b\u0947- \u0905\u091a\u094d\u091b\u094b\u0902&#8221; \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0926\u0932\u093e\u0935 \u0906\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0948&#8221;, which translates roughly to &#8216;even the worst of them can be transformed&#8217;, and lauded Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230210074738\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/guptaravinder71\/status\/1623528585779904512?s=61&amp;t=ygcLIooPAursIeRW314ELw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archived link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">*\u0936\u093e\u0938\u0928 \u0926\u092e\u0926\u093e\u0930 \ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffc\u0939\u094b \u0924\u094b!!*<\/p>\n<p>*&#8221;\u0905\u091a\u094d\u091b\u0947- \u0905\u091a\u094d\u091b\u094b\u0902&#8221; \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0926\u0932\u093e\u0935 \u0906\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0948!!*<\/p>\n<p>\u091c\u092f \u0939\u094b \u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940 \u092e\u0939\u0930\u093e\u091c \u0915\u0940 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/myogiadityanath?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@myogiadityanath<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D1W7NZPfqm\">pic.twitter.com\/D1W7NZPfqm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ravinder Gupta \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@guptaravinder71) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guptaravinder71\/status\/1623528585779904512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This video is widely shared across social media platforms such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/videos?q=%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9B%E0%A5%87-%20%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9B%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%20%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%20%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%20%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%88&amp;filters=eyJycF9jcmVhdGlvbl90aW1lOjAiOiJ7XCJuYW1lXCI6XCJjcmVhdGlvbl90aW1lXCIsXCJhcmdzXCI6XCJ7XFxcInN0YXJ0X3llYXJcXFwiOlxcXCIyMDIzXFxcIixcXFwic3RhcnRfbW9udGhcXFwiOlxcXCIyMDIzLTAyXFxcIixcXFwiZW5kX3llYXJcXFwiOlxcXCIyMDIzXFxcIixcXFwiZW5kX21vbnRoXFxcIjpcXFwiMjAyMy0wMlxcXCIsXFxcInN0YXJ0X2RheVxcXCI6XFxcIjIwMjMtMDItMDFcXFwiLFxcXCJlbmRfZGF5XFxcIjpcXFwiMjAyMy0wMi0yOFxcXCJ9XCJ9In0%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=since%3A2023-01-01%20until%3A2023-02-10%20%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9B%E0%A5%87-%20%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9B%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%20%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%20%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%20%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%88&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. Many users shared the video with the caption used by Ravinder Gupta \u2014 <em>\u201c\u0905\u091a\u094d\u091b\u0947- \u0905\u091a\u094d\u091b\u094b\u0902\u201d \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0926\u0932\u093e\u0935 \u0906\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0948.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-146927 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-12.03.38-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-12.03.38-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-12.03.38-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-12.03.38-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-12.03.38-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-12.03.38-2048x1362.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alt News has received multiple verification requests for the video on its WhatsApp helpline (76000 11160) and app.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-146928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-10-at-11.46.19-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"954\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-10-at-11.46.19-AM.jpeg 954w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-10-at-11.46.19-AM-300x195.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-02-10-at-11.46.19-AM-768x500.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Fact Check<\/h4>\n<p>Performing a keyword search on Twitter, we found that the video was tweeted by BJP spokesperson Nighat Abbass in 2019. She wrote, \u201cAlong with me, the Muslim community raised its voice demanding freedom from Congress and Kejriwal.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u092e\u0947\u0930\u0947 \u0938\u093e\u0925 \u092e\u0941\u0938\u094d\u0932\u093f\u092e \u0938\u092e\u093e\u091c \u0928\u0947 \u0915\u093e\u0902\u0917\u094d\u0930\u0947\u0938 \u0935 \u0915\u0947\u091c\u0930\u0940\u0935\u093e\u0932 \u0938\u0947 \u0906\u091c\u093c\u093e\u0926\u0940 \u092e\u093e\u0901\u0917\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u0906\u0935\u093e\u091c\u093c \u0909\u0920\u093e\u0908\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@narendramodi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmitShah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AmitShah<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManojTiwariMP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ManojTiwariMP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gauravbh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@gauravbh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NupurSharmaBJP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NupurSharmaBJP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TajinderBagga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TajinderBagga<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neelkantbakshi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@neelkantbakshi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PratyushKanth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PratyushKanth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/naqvimukhtar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@naqvimukhtar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SushmaSwaraj?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SushmaSwaraj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smritiirani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@smritiirani<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nsitharaman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nsitharaman<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HarishKhuranna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HarishKhuranna<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iSinghApurva?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iSinghApurva<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LBKW7Yrnkx\">pic.twitter.com\/LBKW7Yrnkx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nighat Abbass\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@abbas_nighat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abbas_nighat\/status\/1125637513115197440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screenshot of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abbas_nighat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abbass&#8217; Twitter profile<\/a>. Her bio says she is &#8216;Spokeperson @bjp4delhi&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-146968 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-13.20.02-1024x869.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-13.20.02-1024x869.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-13.20.02-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-13.20.02-768x652.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-13.20.02.jpg 1204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Her verified Facebook page is categorized as &#8216;politician&#8217;. Her FB handle is &#8216;nighatabbassbjp&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>We also saw that she had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abbas_nighat\/status\/1217673905474637825\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quote-tweeted<\/a> Arun Yadav&#8217;s tweet and clarified that the video was made during 2019 campaign for BJP leader Manoj Tiwari.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-146973 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-13.28.34-1024x588.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-13.28.34-1024x588.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-13.28.34-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-13.28.34-768x441.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-13.28.34-1536x883.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-10-at-13.28.34-2048x1177.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year in February, during UP-elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/tv9-bharatvarsh-depicts-bjp-members-as-muslim-voices-in-ups-bijnor-supporting-bjp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alt News exposed<\/a> how TV9 Bharatvarsh had reported that &#8216;Muslim voices&#8217; in UP\u2019s Bijnor were supporting BJP. We found at least seven out of the 11 &#8216;Muslim voters&#8217; interviewed by the channel were members or workers of the BJP. TV Bharatvarsh presented them as common Muslim voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 44-second clip that shows a group of people from the Muslim community chanting slogans of &#8216;Bharat Mata Ki jai&#8217; and &#8216;Azadi&#8217; is viral on social media. The people, led by a woman in burqa, shout slogans targeting Opposition leaders. They chant &#8216;Rahul Gandhi se azadi&#8217;, &#8216;Akhilesh se lenge azadi&#8217;, &#8216;Mamata didi se azadi&#8217; etc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":146972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-146925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/02\/FI-Kit.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146925"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147154,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146925\/revisions\/147154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146925"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=146925"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=146925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}