{"id":34219,"date":"2019-04-24T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T11:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=34219"},"modified":"2019-04-24T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T11:19:12","slug":"did-a-bjp-leader-have-a-clothing-malfunction-while-campaigning-old-video-false-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/did-a-bjp-leader-have-a-clothing-malfunction-while-campaigning-old-video-false-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a BJP leader have a clothing malfunction while campaigning? Old video, false claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Mr Rakesh Pareekh BJP candidate from Ajmer was giving a speech when his pants fell down. Poor guy is not used to wearing pants. BJP in their desperation r picking any random person &amp; making them stand&#8221;. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>With this message, <em>Hate Story<\/em> actor Bhairavi Goswami <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhairavigoswami\/status\/1119801240110751744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> a video of a man seen in an embarrassing situation, where his trousers come off while he is addressing a public meeting. The claim suggests that the man, who was shot in this awkward moment is a BJP candidate from Ajmer named &#8216;Rakesh Pareekh&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mr Rakesh Pareekh BJP candidate from Ajmer was giving a speech when his pants fell down. Poor guy is not used to wearing pants. BJP in their desperation r picking any random person &amp; making them stand <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vF8osw3cgO\">pic.twitter.com\/vF8osw3cgO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BHAIRAVI GOSWAMI (@bhairavigoswami) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhairavigoswami\/status\/1119801240110751744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This video has gone viral on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/videos\/?q=%22Rakesh%20Pareekh%20BJP%20candidate%22&amp;ref=eyJzaWQiOiIiLCJyZWYiOiJ0b3BfZmlsdGVyIn0%3D&amp;epa=SERP_TAB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Facebook<\/a> with the same narrative. A post by a Facebook page, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/questthelimits\/videos\/366765057571345\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Voice of the people<\/em><\/a>, has garnered close to 19,000 views at the time of writing this article.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34237 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/2019-04-23-16_51_39-_Rakesh-Pareekh-BJP-candidate_-\u2013-Facebook-Search-e1556018956448.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/2019-04-23-16_51_39-_Rakesh-Pareekh-BJP-candidate_-\u2013-Facebook-Search-e1556018956448.png 614w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/2019-04-23-16_51_39-_Rakesh-Pareekh-BJP-candidate_-\u2013-Facebook-Search-e1556018956448-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/2019-04-23-16_51_39-_Rakesh-Pareekh-BJP-candidate_-\u2013-Facebook-Search-e1556018956448-379x259.png 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, some individuals have shared the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/videos\/?q=rakesh%20pareekh%20%22congress%22&amp;epa=SERP_TAB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> claiming that &#8216;Rakesh Pareekh&#8217; is a Congress candidate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Facebook-Congress-Candidate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Facebook-Congress-Candidate.png 640w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/Facebook-Congress-Candidate-300x80.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Old video, not a BJP candidate<\/h2>\n<p>Alt News found that the claim that the person in the video is a BJP candidate from Ajmer is false. It&#8217;s a 2018 video from Uttarakhand, where the former chairman of Jaspur Nagar Palika Parishad, Mohd Umar Siddiqui was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsflare.com\/video\/253165\/politics-business\/wardrobe-malfunction-indian-politicians-trousers-fall-down-during-campaign-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">addressing<\/a> a public meeting during the Udham Singh Nagar municipal polls.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/fact-check\/story\/fact-check-this-is-the-truth-behind-this-hilarious-pant-dropping-video-1401780-2018-12-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>India Today<\/em><\/a> in 2018, Siddiqui had said, <em>&#8220;I was earlier with the BSP and now with Uttarakhand Kranti Dal but have no connection with the BJP or the Congress.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>He also confirmed that this incident had occurred. The video (with the accurate narrative) has been available on YouTube at least since November 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pjaSQh05lYw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pjaSQh05lYw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year in the run-up to the Rajasthan assembly election, the same video was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/fact-check\/story\/fact-check-this-is-the-truth-behind-this-hilarious-pant-dropping-video-1401780-2018-12-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a> with multiple false narratives. It was falsely claimed that the person whose trousers had come off was a BJP candidate Rakesh Parikh, while in reality, Parikh is a Congress leader. It may be reiterated that the man caught in this awkward moment is Umar Siddiqui and NOT Rakesh Parikh. Also, the video is not from Rajasthan but from Uttarakhand, and is completely unrelated to the claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mr Rakesh Pareekh BJP candidate from Ajmer was giving a speech when his pants fell down. Poor guy is not used to wearing pants. BJP in their desperation r picking any random person &amp; making them stand&#8221;. 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