

{"id":149766,"date":"2023-03-04T15:42:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T10:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=149766"},"modified":"2023-03-04T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T10:15:41","slug":"old-video-shared-as-yogi-aditynath-paid-tribune-to-late-police-constable-died-in-umeshpal-hatyakand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-shared-as-yogi-aditynath-paid-tribune-to-late-police-constable-died-in-umeshpal-hatyakand\/","title":{"rendered":"Umesh Pal murder: Did Yogi Adityanath smear himself with ashes from dead cop&#8217;s pyre? Old video viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;padding: 0pt 0pt 17pt 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">A video of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath is gathering a lot of traction on social media. In the clip, he can be seen applying ashes from the ground on his forehead. It is being claimed that Adityanath smeared himself with ashes from the funeral pyre of a police constable who died after being injured in a fatal attack on Umesh Pal, the key witness in a BSP MLA&#8217;s murder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;padding: 0pt 0pt 17pt 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">India TV journalist Jayprrakash Singh tweeted the footage, claiming that Yogi Adityanath put the ashes of the police constable who was martyred in the Umesh Pal murder case in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh on his forehead. (<\/span><a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/8rq97\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #1155cc;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: underline;vertical-align: baseline\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u0909\u0924\u094d\u0924\u0930\u092a\u094d\u0930\u0926\u0947\u0936 \u0915\u0947 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u092f\u093e\u0917\u0930\u093e\u091c \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0930\u093e\u091c\u0942 \u092a\u0932 \u0935\u093f\u0927\u093e\u092f\u0915 \u0939\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0915\u0947 \u0917\u0935\u093e\u0939 \u0909\u092e\u0947\u0936 \u092a\u093e\u0932 \u0939\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0915\u093e\u0902\u0921 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0936\u0939\u0940\u0926 \u0939\u0941\u090f \u092a\u0941\u0932\u093f\u0938 \u0915\u093e\u0902\u0938\u094d\u091f\u0947\u092c\u0932 \u0915\u0940 \u0930\u093e\u0916 \u0915\u094b \u0938\u0930 \u092e\u093e\u0925\u0947 \u092a\u0930 \u0932\u0917\u093e\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0941\u090f \u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940 \u0906\u0926\u093f\u0924\u094d\u092f\u0928\u093e\u0925 &#8211;\u0915\u0939\u093e&#8211;\u0915\u0941\u091b \u0924\u094b \u092c\u0921\u093c\u093e \u0939\u0940 \u0939\u094b\u0915\u0930 \u0930\u0939\u0947\u0917\u093e, \u092c\u0939\u0941\u0924 \u091c\u0932\u094d\u0926\u0940 \u0915\u094b\u0908 \u092c\u0921\u093c\u0940 \u0938\u0942\u091a\u0928\u093e \u092d\u0940 \u092e\u093f\u0932 \u0938\u0915\u0924\u0940 \u0939\u0948\u0964\u0964<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Umeshpal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Umeshpal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UmeshPalCase?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UmeshPalCase<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PrayagrajEncounter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PrayagrajEncounter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PxKuBwwpKY\">pic.twitter.com\/PxKuBwwpKY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jayprrakash Singh (@jayprakashindia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jayprakashindia\/status\/1631657343099232261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;padding: 0pt 0pt 17pt 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Jan Ki Baat Editor Pooja Kushwah also tweeted this video with this claim. (<\/span><a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Kvpiv\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #1155cc;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: underline;vertical-align: baseline\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;text-align: center;background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;padding: 0pt 0pt 17pt 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"border: none;overflow: hidden;width: 598px;height: 511px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-top: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/1B-v4HOrkSaU4seu33B_bt_eKV6DlsGIx2pGhpn9cTfUHOsgovHALMznbZvXw44fB3X9XHYiQ7Bmbz3iYyeKVf0HwqBKeR-Mkc5IBzI5qSs10G-KLAsHLpvHT9EZw8hHYclIEwQWYyPwbZ6UFONqENs\" width=\"598\" height=\"511\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;padding: 0pt 0pt 17pt 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">A user named Thakur Ankit Singh also promoted the video with the same claim. (<\/span><a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/vbYFy\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #1155cc;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: underline;vertical-align: baseline\">Archived link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;text-align: center;background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;padding: 0pt 0pt 17pt 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"border: none;overflow: hidden;width: 598px;height: 505px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-top: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/wPb86JcTWdwYWPfntbBCWaM8vqAIaiLX5TO7OvoSRkO4Z_PVsgQx5tJJlV8qYABhfWHKvJh6rc0wIn-jI00dpBOF0A73riS09xOuLUD9zIWBkhgVZfj0hFTek-Vef5-ABjktSMQ-rs0BIi1EWtQChyk\" width=\"598\" height=\"505\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;padding: 0pt 0pt 17pt 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">A number of <\/span><a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A5%20%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%20%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A6%20%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%96&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #1155cc;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: underline;vertical-align: baseline\">verified handles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"> also amplified the clip and accompanying claim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;text-align: center;background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;padding: 0pt 0pt 17pt 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"border: none;overflow: hidden;width: 598px;height: 575px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-top: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/IDhlSTO1J5fpytfparikYR3rMKJk1YUE-CBjaVLUu_FJz_S30iIuW1vw7zNJBAhbuLvGvAxrsnJRPfFDbzR51QZ4a1Q37EezU1dRwo6zm28aaALBq0-15sjK-5heUG-KH-M8qBzLKMp2H0a6yS9Pong\" width=\"598\" height=\"575\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.62;background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;padding: 0pt 0pt 11pt 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif;color: #111111;background-color: transparent;font-weight: bold;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Fact Check\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;padding: 0pt 0pt 17pt 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Alt News performed a search using keywords related to the viral video. This led us to a tweet by Times Group journalist Sameer Dixit dated March 22, 2022 containing the same clip. Dixit wrote that Yogi Adityanath had put ashes on his forehead after Holika Dahan. In other words, this video is at least one year old. It is now being shared with a misleading claim by linking it to the police constable martyred in the recent Umesh Pal murder case.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u092c\u0938 \u092f\u0939\u0940 \u092b\u093c\u0930\u094d\u0915 \u0939\u0948 \u090f\u0915 \u0926\u093f\u0928 \u0915\u0947 \u0939\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0926\u0942 \u092c\u0928\u0928\u0947 \u092e\u0947\u0902, \u0914\u0930 \u0938\u0928\u093e\u0924\u0928\u0940 \u0939\u093f\u0902\u0926\u0942 \u0915\u0947 \u091c\u094b \u0915\u0930\u094d\u092e &#8211; \u0927\u0930\u094d\u092e \u0938\u0947 \u092a\u0930\u0902\u092a\u0930\u093e \u0915\u093e \u092a\u093e\u0932\u0928 \u0939\u092e\u0947\u0936\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0948\u0902&#8230;.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A5?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940_\u0906\u0926\u093f\u0924\u094d\u092f\u0928\u093e\u0925<\/a> \u0928\u0947 \u0939\u094b\u0932\u093f\u0915\u093e \u0926\u0939\u0928 \u0915\u0947 \u092c\u093e\u0926 \u0930\u093e\u0916 \u0915\u094b \u092e\u093e\u0925\u0947 \u092a\u0930 \u0932\u0917\u093e\u092f\u093e.. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u092a\u0930\u0902\u092a\u0930\u093e<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gOTbP6Doo7\">pic.twitter.com\/gOTbP6Doo7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sameer Dixit (@sameerdixit16) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sameerdixit16\/status\/1506319900943400963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;padding: 0pt 0pt 17pt 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Alt News could not find any more information about this video. However, it is certain that this video is not related to the recent Umesh Pal murder case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;background-color: #ffffff;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 17pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt;font-family: Arial;color: #212121;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">It can be concluded with certainty that a one-year-old video of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath applying ashes on his forehead after Holika Dahan is being falsely shared with a misleading claim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath is gathering a lot of traction on social media. In the clip, he can be seen applying ashes from the ground on his forehead. 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