{"id":28604,"date":"2019-02-20T21:57:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T16:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=28604"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:57:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T16:27:21","slug":"khalistan-supporters-gatecrashing-congress-event-in-london-resurfaces-with-false-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/khalistan-supporters-gatecrashing-congress-event-in-london-resurfaces-with-false-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalistan supporters gatecrashing Congress event in London resurfaces with false claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, a video is being circulated on social media with the claim that the Congress let in Khalistan protesters at their event where the separatists chanted anti-India slogans.\u00a0<\/em>Several individual users have shared the clip, including Gaurav Pradhan<\/a> who has often been found sharing misleading posts<\/a> from his social media accounts. He circulated the clip where Khalistan supporters can be heard allegedly saying,\u00a0“Congress Zindabad, Hindustan Murdabad”. <\/em>Pradhan questions if Rahul Gandhi and Congress are “Pakistanis”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Fake news resurfaces<\/h2>\n

That Congress let Khalistan supporters chant anti-India slogans at Rahul Gandhi’s event in London is a piece of misinformation that resurfaces every few months. Alt News has debunked the fake news twice (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>) in the past when BJP office bearers also circulated it.<\/p>\n

Sikh separatists didn’t merely “arrive” at Rahul Gandhi’s event but gatecrashed it. The claims on social media misleadingly suggest that the Congress supported the protesters.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Naomi Canton<\/a>, who reports for\u00a0Times of India<\/em>\u00a0in the UK, the event was interrupted by four protesters who had \u201cmanaged to evade heavy security to enter Rahul Gandhi\u2019s event\u2026\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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TOI speaks to the Khalistani intruders who gatecrashed Rahul’s event https:\/\/t.co\/Eq44dogy6C<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Naomi Canton (@naomi2009) August 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking to\u00a0TOI<\/em><\/a>, Shamsher Singh, spokesperson for the National Sikh Youth Federation who had gatecrashed the event with three of his associates said,\u00a0\u201cWe slipped in through a side door to the venue at 5.30pm as the security was lax. Once inside, security asked us a few questions but we confidently walked through and said we are here for the event. We got a table and sat down.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Furthermore, television news channels reported that slogans hailing the Congress party were chanted in response to the slogans raised by the Sikh separatists who had gatecrashed the event.<\/p>\n