{"id":19083,"date":"2018-09-04T21:21:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=19083"},"modified":"2018-09-04T21:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:51:48","slug":"2014-image-of-seva-bharti-workers-shared-as-rss-relief-work-during-recent-kerala-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/2014-image-of-seva-bharti-workers-shared-as-rss-relief-work-during-recent-kerala-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 image of Seva Bharti workers shared as RSS relief work during recent Kerala floods"},"content":{"rendered":"

“\u0915\u0947\u0930\u0932 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0938\u0902\u0918 \u0932\u0917\u092d\u0917 3800 \u0930\u093e\u0939\u0924 \u0936\u093f\u0935\u093f\u0930 \u0915\u093e \u0938\u0902\u091a\u093e\u0932\u0928 \u0915\u0930 700000 \u092c\u093e\u0922\u093c \u092a\u0940\u0921\u093c\u093f\u0924\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0924\u093f\u0926\u093f\u0928 \u092e\u0926\u0926 \u0926\u0947 \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0939\u0948\u0964 \u092c\u0921\u093c\u0947 \u0916\u0930\u0928\u093e\u0915 \u0939\u0948\u0902 \u092f\u0947 \u092d\u0917\u0935\u093e \u0906\u0924\u0902\u0915\u0940 !!!<\/em>\u00a0(In Kerala, Sangh is operating approximately 3,800 relief camps which are helping 7 lakh flood victims every day. These saffron terrorists are very dangerous – translated).” This message was viral on social media with the image of RSS workers allegedly providing relief aid to Kerala flood victims.<\/p>\n

An individual user on Facebook \u0905\u0930\u092c\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0926 \u0915\u0941\u092e\u093e\u0930 \u0917\u0941\u092a\u094d\u0924\u093e<\/a> (<\/span><\/span>Arbind Kumar Gupta<\/span><\/span>) shared the image which was reshared 2,700 times.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Another Facebook user Sandeep Gharat shared the image with the identical claim on a group called I Am Proud India<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gharat has shared the post in three other groups – We Support Narendra Modi 2019<\/a>, Once Again Modi Raj 2019<\/a> and Narendra Modi Fans<\/a>. It has a combined share count of over 1,100 and has been liked nearly 4,100 times.<\/p>\n

\"\"It was also shared by one RJ Pamod Gupta<\/a> and attracted 1,000 shares and over 2,400 likes. A couple of users on Twitter also circulated the image with the accompanying claim, including a user<\/a> who identifies himself as an RSS worker and another<\/a> who is followed by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal’s Office.<\/p>\n

2014 photograph<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Alt News reverse searched the image on Google and found that it was published in 2014 by a website called\u00a0samvada.org<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in an article titled –\u00a0‘RSS Swayamsevaks helps devotees during \u2018Punarjani Guha crawling festival\u2019 in Thiruvilwamala Kerala’.\u00a0<\/em>The website samvada.org<\/em> is associated with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.<\/p>\n

According to the report, during the state’s annual\u00a0Tunnel Crawling Festival<\/em>, \u2018Seva Bharati\u2019 workers offered food, water and shelter to the people at Punarjani Guha.<\/p>\n

\"\"As floods wreaked havoc across districts in Kerala, several old images and videos of unrelated RSS work poured in on social media. Alt News has debunked<\/a> them several times in the past. Circulating images with a false narrative during a disaster is\u00a0an insensitive tactic to garner commendation.<\/p>\n