{"id":21149,"date":"2018-10-22T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=21149"},"modified":"2018-10-22T18:39:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:09:31","slug":"delhi-mla-manjinder-sirsa-shares-affectionate-photo-of-nehru-with-his-niece-to-malign-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/delhi-mla-manjinder-sirsa-shares-affectionate-photo-of-nehru-with-his-niece-to-malign-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi MLA Manjinder Sirsa shares affectionate photo of Nehru with his niece to malign him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi MLA Manjinder S Sirsa from NDA-affiliated\u00a0Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/dBW3Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> a photograph of a lady holding former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in an embrace from behind and kiss him on his cheek, captioning the image as &#8211;\u00a0 <em>&#8220;the hero of the Indian National Congress&#8221;<\/em>. Juxtaposed with Nehru&#8217;s image, he posted what looks like an e-paper clip in admiration of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and termed him<em>\u00a0&#8220;the real hero of India.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pic 1 &#8211; The real hero of India<\/p>\n<p>Vs<\/p>\n<p>Pic 2 &#8211; The hero of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/INCIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@INCIndia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@narendramodi<\/a> Ji for honouring the real heroes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AzadHindGovernment?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AzadHindGovernment<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AzadHindSarkar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AzadHindSarkar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xEWi11jjBl\">pic.twitter.com\/xEWi11jjBl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manjinder S Sirsa (@mssirsa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mssirsa\/status\/1053877131766259712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>The lady is Nehru&#8217;s niece Nayantara Sehgal<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In the picture tweeted by Sirsa, Nehru is being given a kiss by his niece\u00a0Nayantara Sehgal\u00a0on his arrival at London airport in 1955. The woman on their right is Sehgal\u2019s mother, Vijaylakshmi Pandit, who was the High Commissioner to the\u00a0UK at that time. Alt News had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/bjp-cell-head-amit-malviya-shares-affectionate-pictures-nehru-sister-niece-claims-hardik-patels-dna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debunked<\/a> this image last year as well when BJP IT Cell Head Amit Malviya also shared the photograph to malign Nehru.<\/p>\n<p>A video of Nehru&#8217;s arrival posted by\u00a0vintage television company\u00a0British Path\u00e9 on their YouTube channel provides a clearer context. The peck can be seen at the 27th second of the clip.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mr Nehru Arrives At London Airport (1955)\" width=\"1290\" height=\"968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vbMrgZu0NTU?start=46&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal has often been targetted on social media. The attempt at character assassination not only takes place with the help of false narratives but also fake images.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Image of an actor playing Nehru shared as\u00a0an\u00a0actual image of the former PM<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Recently, another purported photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru was doing rounds on social media, attempting to show him intimate with a woman. From a Facebook group,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/namobestpminworld\/permalink\/1105398563189416\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>We Support PM Modi<\/em><\/a>, this image was circulated with the caption &#8211;\u00a0<em>&#8220;\u0906\u091c\u093e\u0926\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u0932\u0921\u093c\u093e\u0908 \u0932\u0921\u093c\u0924\u0947 \u0928\u0947\u0939\u0930\u0941 \u091a\u093e\u091a\u093e\u00a0 (Chacha Nehru fighting the battle of Independence).&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>It was shared over 600 times.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21152 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"709\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru.png 709w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru-265x198.png 265w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru-696x516.png 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru-566x420.png 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image is a shot from a play &#8216;Drawing the Line&#8217; and the man in the photograph is not Nehru but theatre actor\u00a0Silas Carson with actress Lucy Black who played the role of Edwina Mountbatten. Details about the play are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hampsteadtheatre.com\/whats-on\/2013\/drawing-the-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> of London&#8217;s Hampstead Theatre.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21155 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru-actor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru-actor.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru-actor-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru-actor-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru-actor-696x406.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/nehru-actor-720x420.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s first Prime Minister is one of the favourite targets of social media&#8217;s right-wing machinery. Decades after his death, Nehru&#8217;s photographs are not only shared with false narratives but often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/viral-photograph-claims-nehru-attended-rss-shakha-meeting-what-is-the-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photoshopped<\/a> to propagate his image as an immoral man.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the following Alt News video for more such examples where misleading and photoshopped images were used to target Jawaharlal Nehru.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nehru: A favourite target for disinformation\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-BdTJW0Oek?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi MLA Manjinder S Sirsa from NDA-affiliated\u00a0Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) tweeted a photograph of a lady holding former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in an embrace from behind and kiss him on his cheek, captioning the image as &#8211;\u00a0 &#8220;the hero of the Indian National Congress&#8221;. Juxtaposed with Nehru&#8217;s image, he posted what looks like an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":21179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-21149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/NEHRU-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21149","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21178,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21149\/revisions\/21178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21149"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=21149"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}