{"id":24485,"date":"2018-12-26T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T14:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=24485"},"modified":"2019-03-18T18:17:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T12:47:18","slug":"congress-spokespersons-make-false-claim-about-pm-modi-waving-at-an-empty-train-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/congress-spokespersons-make-false-claim-about-pm-modi-waving-at-an-empty-train-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Spokespersons make false claim about PM Modi waving at an empty train in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video clip of Prime Minister Narendra Modi purportedly waving at an empty train in Assam has gone viral on social media. FekuExpress<\/a><\/em>, a Facebook page has shared the video with a caption, “Seeking Desperate Attention”<\/em>. The video shared by this page has already crossed 3 lakh views with a massive share count close to 11, 000.<\/p>\n

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Seeking Desperate Attention \ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23<\/a><\/p>\n

Seeking Desperate Attention \ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23
\nDon’t miss the shadow… epic!!!<\/p>\n

Posted by FekuExpress<\/a> on Tuesday, 25 December 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Brijesh Kalappa<\/a>, spokesperson of Indian National Congress tweeted the video suggesting that there was ‘no one’ in the train. A spokesperson for Maharastra Congress,\u00a0Sachin Sawant<\/a>, also tweeted a set of images clicked at the event with the identical narrative.<\/p>\n

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Khushbu Sundar<\/a>, National Spokesperson of the Congress party also tweeted the video suggesting that the Prime Minister was ‘waving at an imaginary crowd’.<\/p>\n

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Several individual users and pages<\/a> have shared this video on Facebook with the same claim.<\/p>\n

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What is the truth?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

On December 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Bogibeel bridge in Assam on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After inaugurating the longest rail-cum-road bridge, he flagged off Tinsukia-Naharlagun Express train which links Naharlagun in Arunachal pradesh to Tinsukia in Assam.<\/p>\n

We found a YouTube video<\/a> posted by the official channel of PMO India. At 17:53 mins in the video, the crowd present in the train is clearly visibly.<\/p>\n