{"id":22985,"date":"2018-11-23T21:41:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=22985"},"modified":"2019-03-19T18:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:55:13","slug":"fake-quote-attributed-to-arun-shourie-viral-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fake-quote-attributed-to-arun-shourie-viral-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake quote attributed to Arun Shourie viral on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;\u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u0938\u092e\u0938\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0915\u093e\u0902\u0917\u094d\u0930\u0947\u0938 \u0928\u0939\u0940 \u0939\u0948, \u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u0938\u092e\u0938\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0932\u094b\u0917\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0940 \u092c\u0922\u093c\u0924\u0940&#8221;\u091c\u093e\u0917\u0930\u0941\u0915\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0948&#8221; \u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u091a\u093e\u0939\u093f\u090f \u0905\u0928\u092a\u0922\u093c, \u0915\u092e\u091c\u094b\u0930, \u0928\u0902\u0917\u0947, \u092d\u0942\u0916\u0947, \u0917\u0930\u0940\u092c \u0914\u0930 \u0917\u0941\u0932\u093e\u092e \u091a\u092e\u091a\u0947 (BJP&#8217;s problem is not Congress party but the increasing awareness of the people. BJP wants illiterate, weak, bare bodied, hungry, poor and slave sycophants -translated)&#8221; <\/em>This is quote ascribed to former Union Minister Arun Shourie by Facebook page, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheViralinIndia\/photos\/a.1924211014508002\/2206392366289864\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Viral In India<\/em><\/a>. It has garnered close to 8600 shares and 4700 likes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Selection_377.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"995\" height=\"1358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Selection_377.jpg 995w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Selection_377-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Selection_377-768x1048.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Selection_377-750x1024.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Selection_377-696x950.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Selection_377-308x420.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 995px) 100vw, 995px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with Alt News, Arun Shourie has denied having made any statement to this effect. He added, <em>&#8220;Neither do I have a social media account including Facebook and Twitter nor do I own a website&#8221;. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Several other social media <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_SMORYA\/status\/1059020150781894656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">users<\/a> have shared the same claim without any attribution which clearly indicates that a random statement has been ascribed to Arun Shourie to garner shares and run a political propaganda in the run up to the election.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22993 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-203521_01-e1542985923708.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1047\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-203521_01-e1542985923708.jpg 1047w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-203521_01-e1542985923708-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-203521_01-e1542985923708-768x634.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-203521_01-e1542985923708-1024x845.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-203521_01-e1542985923708-696x574.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_20181123-203521_01-e1542985923708-509x420.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1047px) 100vw, 1047px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the past as well, fake quotes have been ascribed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-white-house-has-not-declared-manmohan-singh-as-the-most-honest-political-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">politicians<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fact-check-has-dr-manmohan-singh-been-awarded-as-the-strongest-pm-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public figures<\/a>\u00a0resulting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/priyanka-chaturvedi-daughter-fake-quote-rape-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">serious ramifications<\/a>. <em>Viral In India<\/em> is owned and managed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meamabhishek?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abhishek Mishra<\/a>, who claims to be a \u2018News\/Media personality\u2019 and an \u2018RTI activist\u2019 in his Twitter bio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u0938\u092e\u0938\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0915\u093e\u0902\u0917\u094d\u0930\u0947\u0938 \u0928\u0939\u0940 \u0939\u0948, \u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u0938\u092e\u0938\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0932\u094b\u0917\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0940 \u092c\u0922\u093c\u0924\u0940&#8221;\u091c\u093e\u0917\u0930\u0941\u0915\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0948&#8221; \u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u091a\u093e\u0939\u093f\u090f \u0905\u0928\u092a\u0922\u093c, \u0915\u092e\u091c\u094b\u0930, \u0928\u0902\u0917\u0947, \u092d\u0942\u0916\u0947, \u0917\u0930\u0940\u092c \u0914\u0930 \u0917\u0941\u0932\u093e\u092e \u091a\u092e\u091a\u0947 (BJP&#8217;s problem is not Congress party but the increasing awareness of the people. BJP wants illiterate, weak, bare bodied, hungry, poor and slave sycophants -translated)&#8221; This is quote ascribed to former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":22995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-22985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-economics","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\/Arun-Shourie-FI.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31042,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22985\/revisions\/31042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22985"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=22985"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}