{"id":33105,"date":"2019-04-11T19:08:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=33105"},"modified":"2019-04-11T19:28:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:58:48","slug":"viral-fake-quote-ascribed-to-raveena-tandon-circulates-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/viral-fake-quote-ascribed-to-raveena-tandon-circulates-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral: Fake quote ascribed to Raveena Tandon circulates on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quote accredited to Raveena Tandon claims that the Bollywood actor said, “Hindus have lost Pakistan and Bangladesh. Hindus are extinct in Kashmir & becoming minority in Kerala, Assam, etc. Still bigots like Raj Nayak are spreading a myth that Mughal invaders failed to harm Hindus in 1000 years and India<\/span>\u00a0will never become an Islamic country.<\/span>“<\/em><\/p>\n

The alleged statement was posted<\/a> on Twitter by a user Prashant Swami (@Prashant_Swami).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Raveena Tandon enlightens and slams bigoted moron Raj Nayak, who made false claim that even after centuries long #Mughal<\/a> invasion, India did not become Islamic country & #Hindus<\/a> have been safe !@rajcheerfull<\/a> @TandonRaveena<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/6fyf75Ki0M<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Prashant Swami (@Prashant_Swami) April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Swami’s tweet was retweeted by right-wing influencer Payal Rohatgi.<\/p>\n

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The quote was purportedly Tandon’s response to a statement made by Raj Nayak, former COO of Viacom18, who had said, “The Mughal Emperors ruled the Indian Sub Continent for 300 years, we did not become a Muslim Nation. The Britishers ruled India for 200 years, we did not become a Christian Nation. So why are people going around scaring people that our religion is under threat? From whom?”<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Mughal Emperors ruled the Indian Sub Continent for 300 years, we did not become a Muslim Nation. The Britishers ruled India for 200 years, we did not become a Christian Nation. So why are people going around scaring people that our religion is under threat? From whom?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Raj Nayak (@rajcheerfull) April 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fake quote<\/h2>\n

A lack of media reports carrying the statement allegedly made by Raveena Tandon hinted that the quote was false. Alt News reached out to the actor for comments.<\/p>\n

“This is absolutely false,” <\/em>Tandon confirmed. “And has happened to me twice before. Just yesterday, I came across another quote and a tweet attributed to me. I don’t know how one can put a stop to this because it completely leads to misinformation, misinterpretation and character assassination,”\u00a0<\/em>she added.<\/p>\n

The circulation of misinformation in the name of Bollywood actors is commonplace on social media. Fake statements accredited to them, propagating a false narrative, is more often than not believed to be true. Earlier, Amitabh Bachchan<\/a>, Prakash Raj<\/a> and Shah Rukh Khan<\/a> had found themselves in the crosshairs of similar disinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quote accredited to Raveena Tandon claims that the Bollywood actor said, “Hindus have lost Pakistan and Bangladesh. Hindus are extinct in Kashmir & becoming minority in Kerala, Assam, etc. Still bigots like Raj Nayak are spreading a myth that Mughal invaders failed to harm Hindus in 1000 years and India\u00a0will never become an Islamic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":33176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[160,150,657,482,656,655],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-33105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-hindus","tag-kashmir","tag-mughal","tag-pakistan","tag-raj-nayak","tag-raveena-tandon","fact_checks_claim_type-social-media-claims","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/raveena-tandon.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33159,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105\/revisions\/33159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33105"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=33105"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=33105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}