{"id":22019,"date":"2018-11-05T13:56:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T08:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=22019"},"modified":"2018-11-05T13:56:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T08:26:17","slug":"aam-aadmi-party-passes-off-bridge-in-netherlands-as-signature-bridge-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aam-aadmi-party-passes-off-bridge-in-netherlands-as-signature-bridge-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Aam Aadmi Party passes off bridge in Netherlands as Signature bridge in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 4, the Signature bridge was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/delhi-news\/tug-of-war-between-bjp-and-aap-over-delhi-s-iconic-signature-bridge\/story-E4nWeRhKNnxDOWPkd1DUhK.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inaugurated<\/a> by the Delhi government amid ruckus. The 675 metre long bridge, constructed across the Yamuna river connecting Wazirabad to the inner city, has been touted as a stellar achievement of the Delhi government. The Aam Aadmi Party on November 3 had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AamAadmiParty\/status\/1058763831604850688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted pictures<\/a> of the bridge, purportedly shot at night, on its official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/aap_bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/aap_bridge.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/aap_bridge-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/aap_bridge-404x420.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It did not take long for political opponents and social media users to point out that out of the three photographs posted by the party, the first one was NOT of the Signature bridge to be inaugurated in the national capital. It may be noted here that the other two photos are not in dispute.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22022\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/aap_bridge2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/aap_bridge2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/aap_bridge2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/aap_bridge2-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not Signature bridge, Delhi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The photograph which has been disputed\u00a0was posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnkitLal\/status\/1058703602959683584?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ankit Lal<\/a>, the social media coordinator of the Aam Aadmi Party.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/ankitlal-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/ankitlal-bridge.jpg 539w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/ankitlal-bridge-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/ankitlal-bridge-434x420.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>PHOTOS OF BRIDGE IN THE NETHERLANDS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Tajinder Pal Bagga, Delhi BJP spokesperson was quick to latch on to this faux pas, pointing out that the photograph represented the Erasmus bridge in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArvindKejriwal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ArvindKejriwal<\/a> \u0938\u093e\u0939\u092c \u0935\u093f\u0915\u093e\u0938 \u0915\u0930 \u0932\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0939\u094b\u0924\u093e \u0924\u094b \u0928\u0940\u0926\u0930\u0932\u0948\u0902\u0921 \u0915\u0947 \u0907\u0930\u093e\u0938\u094d\u092e\u0938 \u092c\u094d\u0930\u093f\u091c \u0915\u0940 \u092b\u094b\u091f\u094b \u091a\u0941\u0930\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u091c\u0930\u0942\u0930\u0924 \u0928\u0939\u0940 \u092a\u0921\u093c\u0924\u0940 \u0964 \u092f\u0947 \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0909\u0938\u0915\u093e \u0932\u093f\u0902\u0915 \u091c\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0938\u0947 \u0906\u092a\u0928\u0947 \u0924\u0938\u094d\u0935\u0940\u0930 \u091a\u0941\u0930\u093e\u0908 \u0916\u0948\u0930 \u091a\u094b\u0930\u0940\/\u0918\u094b\u091f\u093e\u0932\u093e \u0924\u094b \u0906\u092a\u0915\u0940 \u092b\u093f\u0924\u0930\u0924 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0939\u0948<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/edwphH9ubn\">https:\/\/t.co\/edwphH9ubn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w9Z8xHSkWc\">pic.twitter.com\/w9Z8xHSkWc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga (@TajinderBagga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TajinderBagga\/status\/1058939923099639808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bagga also tweeted a link to a YouTube video, titled <em>&#8216;Illumination of the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam&#8217;<\/em>. The video is posted below. The frame at 0:26 minutes nearly matches the photograph of the bridge posted by Aam Aadmi Party.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ILLUMINATION OF THE ERASMUS BRIDGE IN ROTTERDAM\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_IzD8ktVq18?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>Alt News independently verified that the bridge in question is indeed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.in\/photos\/erasmus-bridge?alloweduse=availableforalluses&amp;family=creative&amp;license=rf&amp;phrase=erasmus%20bridge&amp;sort=best#license\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erasmus bridge<\/a> in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Named after Desiderius Erasmus, the 16th century Christian scholar and humanist, the bridge is 139 metres tall and over 800 metres long. Like the newly inaugurated Signature bridge in Delhi, it is a long-cable suspension bridge.<\/p>\n<p>All political parties without exception portray infrastructural accomplishments as hallmarks of development and in the process, they sometimes go overboard. Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/bjp-chhattisgarh-uses-images-from-gujarat-and-abroad-to-showcase-improved-highways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chhattisgarh BJP<\/a> had passed off pictures of roads in Gujarat and abroad to showcase improved highways in its tenure. Despite the similarity in the structure of the two bridges, AAP&#8217;s gaffe did not go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 4, the Signature bridge was inaugurated by the Delhi government amid ruckus. The 675 metre long bridge, constructed across the Yamuna river connecting Wazirabad to the inner city, has been touted as a stellar achievement of the Delhi government. The Aam Aadmi Party on November 3 had posted pictures of the bridge, purportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":22030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[132],"class_list":["post-22019","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\/11\/FI_bridge2.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22019","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22019"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22034,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22019\/revisions\/22034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22019"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=22019"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}