{"id":28400,"date":"2019-02-18T19:17:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=28400"},"modified":"2019-02-18T19:17:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:47:45","slug":"did-pm-modi-speak-with-martyrs-wife-after-pulwama-attack-video-after-2013-patna-blast-shared-as-recent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/did-pm-modi-speak-with-martyrs-wife-after-pulwama-attack-video-after-2013-patna-blast-shared-as-recent\/","title":{"rendered":"Did PM Modi speak with martyr&#8217;s wife after Pulwama attack? Video after 2013 Patna blast shared as recent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;\u0915\u092d\u0940 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0910\u0938\u093e \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0927\u093e\u0928\u092e\u0902\u0924\u094d\u0930\u0940 \u091c\u094b \u0916\u0941\u0926 \u0936\u0939\u0940\u0926 \u0915\u0940 \u092a\u0924\u094d\u0928\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u092b\u094b\u0928 \u0915\u0930\u0947, \u090f\u0915 \u092c\u093e\u092a \u0915\u0940 \u0924\u0930\u0939 \u0909\u0928\u0915\u0947 \u0906\u0901\u0938\u0942 \u092a\u094b\u0902\u091b\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u0915\u094b\u0936\u093f\u0936 \u0915\u0930\u0947, \u0926\u0947\u0916 \u0915\u0930 \u0906\u0901\u0916\u0947 \u0928\u092e \u0939\u094b \u091c\u093e\u090f\u0901\u0917\u0940 (Have you ever seen a Prime Minister, who himself calls the martyr&#8217;s wife and tries to console her like a father. This video will bring tears to your eyes -translated)&#8221;<\/em> reads the caption of a video, where a woman is supposedly speaking to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a phone call. The video has gone viral on social media in the backdrop of the Pulwama terror attack. A post by a Facebook page<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2042602839128037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <em>Swadeshi Lehar<\/em><\/a> has been shared close to 2800 times so far.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/02\/Selection_851.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/02\/Selection_851.png 508w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/02\/Selection_851-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many other individual users on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/posts\/?q=%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%88%20%E0%A4%90%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8B%20%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A6%20%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A6%20%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80&amp;epa=SERP_TAB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%88%20%E0%A4%90%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8B%20%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A6%20%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A6%20%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> have shared the video with an identical narrative.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Old video of Modi talking with Martyr&#039;s wife viral as recent\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/317933730?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"528\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Old video, not the wife of army martyr<\/h2>\n<p>Alt News found that the video is more than five years old and dates back to the time when Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. We found a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-zoSNcQJn8U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>, uploaded by <em>Zee News<\/em>&#8216; official YouTube channel on November 2, 2013. <em>&#8220;Narendra Modi called on the wife of Patna blast victim from Gopal Ganj, Munna Shrivastav, to offer his condolences. He was unable to visit the village due to bad weather.&#8221;, <\/em>reads the caption attested with the video. Narendra Modi&#8217;s website had also published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narendramodi.in\/%E2%80%9Cwe-should-stand-together-as-one-family%E2%80%9D-shri-modi-to-the-wife-of-shaheed-munna-srivastava-5681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> along with the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ffIbO1VbKY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>, now circulating on social media, on November 2, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-zoSNcQJn8U\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-zoSNcQJn8U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The woman, whom Modi was consoling over a telephonic conversation, seen in the video is Munna Srivastava&#8217;s wife, Priya Srivastava. Munna Srivastava was one of five people who were killed in a serial blast that reportedly took place before BJP&#8217;s Hunkar rally in October, 2013. An article published by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.indianexpress.com\/news\/serial-blasts-target-modis-rally-at-patnas-gandhi-maidan-5-dead\/1187944\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Indian Express<\/a><\/em> on October 28, 2013, stated, <em>&#8220;In the first such attack in Patna, five people were killed and over 70 injured when serial blasts targeted Narendra Modi&#8217;s rally in the state capital&#8217;s Gandhi Maidan.&#8221; <\/em>As the weather conditions were unfavourable for Modi&#8217;s chopper to land in Srivastava&#8217;s town, he was unable to visit the family.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, an old video of a woman, whose husband had died in a serial blasts in Patna in 2013 was circulated widely as PM Modi consoling the wife of a martyr, in the backdrop of the recent terror attack on CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u0915\u092d\u0940 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0910\u0938\u093e \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0927\u093e\u0928\u092e\u0902\u0924\u094d\u0930\u0940 \u091c\u094b \u0916\u0941\u0926 \u0936\u0939\u0940\u0926 \u0915\u0940 \u092a\u0924\u094d\u0928\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u092b\u094b\u0928 \u0915\u0930\u0947, \u090f\u0915 \u092c\u093e\u092a \u0915\u0940 \u0924\u0930\u0939 \u0909\u0928\u0915\u0947 \u0906\u0901\u0938\u0942 \u092a\u094b\u0902\u091b\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u0915\u094b\u0936\u093f\u0936 \u0915\u0930\u0947, \u0926\u0947\u0916 \u0915\u0930 \u0906\u0901\u0916\u0947 \u0928\u092e \u0939\u094b \u091c\u093e\u090f\u0901\u0917\u0940 (Have you ever seen a Prime Minister, who himself calls the martyr&#8217;s wife and tries to console her like a father. This video will bring tears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":28438,"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-28400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/02\/Martyr-wife.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400","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=28400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28478,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28400\/revisions\/28478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28400"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=28400"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}