{"id":32121,"date":"2019-03-31T12:09:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T06:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=32121"},"modified":"2019-03-31T16:08:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T10:38:20","slug":"india-today-deletes-article-about-amit-shahs-granddaughter-refusing-to-wear-bjp-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/india-today-deletes-article-about-amit-shahs-granddaughter-refusing-to-wear-bjp-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"India Today deletes article about \u2018Amit Shah\u2019s granddaughter refusing to wear BJP hat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah sharing candid moments with his granddaughter went viral on social media. To the amusement of social media users, Amit Shah was seen trying to make his granddaughter wear a BJP cap while she kept removing it from her head. Several media outlets including <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/video\/the-crowd-in-the-road-show-is-a-clear-sign-of-our-victory-amit-shah-1489985-2019-03-30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">India Today<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loksatta.com\/elections-news\/amit-shah-granddaughter-rejects-to-wear-bjp-cap-1867099\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lok Satta<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/abpmajha.abplive.in\/videos\/amit-shahas-grand-daughter-refused-to-wear-bjp-cap-649679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABP Majha<\/a><\/em> reported the incident and posted the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amit Shah&#039;s granddaughter refuses to wear BJP cap\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/327463172?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Watch: Amit Shah&#8217;s granddaughter not interested in grandfather&#8217;s saffron-coloured cap&#8221;, <\/em>tweeted <em>India Today<\/em> on March 30 at 10:48 AM.The tweet included a hyperlink to the article which was correspondingly titled, <em>&#8220;Amit Shah&#8217;s granddaughter refuses to wear a BJP hat&#8221;. <\/em>After an hour, <em>India Today <\/em>tweeted the same video once again with a different headline.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32126 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-izW2avUWsxXjO8G-e1553960503442-1024x829.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-izW2avUWsxXjO8G-e1553960503442-1024x829.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-izW2avUWsxXjO8G-e1553960503442-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-izW2avUWsxXjO8G-e1553960503442-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-izW2avUWsxXjO8G-e1553960503442-990x802.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-izW2avUWsxXjO8G-e1553960503442-1320x1069.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-izW2avUWsxXjO8G-e1553960503442-260x210.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-izW2avUWsxXjO8G-e1553960503442.jpg 2023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The video elicited a range of reactions on social media. While some had a good laugh at the antics of the child, others went a step further and used it to mock Amit Shah. He was soon a butt of jokes about how he couldn\u2019t even convince his granddaughter to don the BJP cap.<\/p>\n<h2>Story Disappeared<\/h2>\n<p>By the evening, <em>India Today\u2019s<\/em> tweets, the article and the video had gone missing.<\/p>\n<p>While the tweets were deleted, the articles have been replaced with a different video and narrative, which makes no mention of the incident with the granddaughter and instead focuses on Amit Shah\u2019s rally.<\/p>\n<p>In the collage below, a screenshot of an old article is juxtaposed with the updated version of the article. Old article was headlined,<em> \u201cAmit Shah granddaughter refuses to wear BJP hat\u201d,<\/em> whereas the completely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/video\/the-crowd-in-the-road-show-is-a-clear-sign-of-our-victory-amit-shah-1489985-2019-03-30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refurbished<\/a> article was titled, <em>\u201cThe crowd in the road show is a clear sign of our victory: Amit Shah\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32128 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/ZomboDroid30032019090149-e1553960462934-1024x880.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/ZomboDroid30032019090149-e1553960462934-1024x880.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/ZomboDroid30032019090149-e1553960462934-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/ZomboDroid30032019090149-e1553960462934-768x660.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/ZomboDroid30032019090149-e1553960462934-990x851.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/ZomboDroid30032019090149-e1553960462934.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>India Today\u2019s<\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/aajtak.intoday.in\/video\/when-granddaughter-of-amit-shah-refuses-to-wear-bjp-cap-1-1071800.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaj Tak<\/a><\/em> also followed suit in removing the story. Interestingly,<em> India Today,<\/em> in pursuit of deleting all the traces of the story on their platform, has also deleted the corresponding posts from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IndiaToday\/posts\/10157980216442119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indiatoday\/status\/1111882979427545088?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. The video however still exists on their official <a href=\"https:\/\/m.aajtak.in\/video\/embed\/8105ab81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that an article on Amit Shah has been pulled down. In the past stories on Amit Shah&#8217;s assets and Smriti Irani&#8217;s &#8216;Degree&#8217; have <a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/media\/amit-shah-assets-smriti-irani-degrees-toi-et-outlook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vanished<\/a> from <em>TOI<\/em> and <em>DNA<\/em>. Like the previous instances, this time too reason behind the quiet retraction may never be known.<\/p>\n<p>In Jan last year, Nita and Mukesh Ambani\u2019s son Anant Ambani\u2019s spirited speech was taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/thou-shalt-not-mock-anant-ambani-eight-websites-delete-articles-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">down<\/a> by multiple media outlets after he was mocked in social media. A story on <em>\u2018threat from Modi\u2019s nationalism\u2019<\/em> behind India\u2019s poor ranking in press freedom index was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/indian-medias-reluctant-coverage-2017-world-press-freedom-index-reflection-indias-low-rank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deleted<\/a> by <em>Economic Times <\/em>and <em>Times of India. <\/em>A report by<em> Economic Times<\/em> on the Cobrapost sting operation on a senior Paytm official also <a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/media\/as-et-pulls-down-paytm-cobrapost-sting-story-questions-over-its-coverage-arise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disappeared<\/a> without any explanation. Meanwhile, India\u2019s rank in the Press Freedom Index has been sliding over the years. In 2018, India <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/indias-ranking-in-press-freedom-falls-to-138\/article23679187.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranked<\/a> an abysmal 138 out of 180 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah sharing candid moments with his granddaughter went viral on social media. To the amusement of social media users, Amit Shah was seen trying to make his granddaughter wear a BJP cap while she kept removing it from her head. 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