{"id":27678,"date":"2019-02-09T18:24:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T12:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=27678"},"modified":"2019-02-09T18:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T12:54:54","slug":"old-video-of-congress-supporters-burning-modis-effigy-shared-as-bjp-supporters-burning-rahul-gandhis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-of-congress-supporters-burning-modis-effigy-shared-as-bjp-supporters-burning-rahul-gandhis\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video of Congress supporters burning Modi’s effigy shared as BJP supporters burning Rahul Gandhi’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

“\u091a\u094b\u0915\u0940\u0926\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u094b \u091a\u094b\u0930 \u0915\u0939\u0928\u0947 \u092a\u0930 \u0930\u093e\u0939\u0941\u0932 \u0917\u093e\u0902\u0927\u0940 \u0915\u093e \u092a\u0941\u0924\u0932\u093e \u091c\u0932\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u093f \u0915\u094b\u0936\u093f\u0936 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0916\u0941\u0926 \u091c\u0932 \u0917\u092f\u0947 \u092d\u0915\u094d\u0924 (In an attempt to burn an effigy of Rahul Gandhi, BJP supporters ended burning themselves .They wanted to burn his effigy because he had called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a ‘thief’ -translated), <\/em>read a caption affixed with a video. The video shows a group of people being accidentally set on fire while trying to burn an effigy. Two individual Facebook users,\u00a0Nitin Pratap<\/a> and Rajendra Singh<\/a> have shared this video with an identical narrative. It has attracted a combined view count in excess of 1,20,000 already.<\/p>\n

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Moreover, individual\u00a0Facebook <\/a><\/em>users have shared the video with identical text.<\/p>\n

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Truth is diametrically opposite to the claim<\/h2>\n

Alt News did a Google search with the keywords, “Effigy burning burned themselves”<\/em> and found a India Today<\/em><\/a> article from 2015, which stated a completely different narrative. The message posted along with the video on Facebook is false. The people seen in the video are in fact Congress supporters who, during an attempt to burn an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had endured burn injuries themselves.<\/p>\n

“Three Congress workers received serious burn injuries when they were burning the effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi today in Shimla while protesting against the National Herald case.”,<\/em> stated the report<\/a> published on December 14, 2015. Boom Live<\/em><\/a> had debunked this claim earlier.<\/p>\n