{"id":37350,"date":"2019-05-28T18:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T12:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=37350"},"modified":"2019-05-28T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T12:32:29","slug":"mahatma-gandhis-statue-dishonoured-after-bjps-win-no-old-video-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mahatma-gandhis-statue-dishonoured-after-bjps-win-no-old-video-from-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahatma Gandhi’s statue dishonoured after BJP’s win? No, old video from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u0907\u0924\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0938 \u0906\u092a\u0915\u094b \u0917\u093e\u0932\u0940 \u0926\u0947\u0917\u093e \ud83d\ude4f@narendramodi<\/a> @PMOIndia<\/a> @rajnathsingh<\/a> @nitin_gadkari<\/a> @SushmaSwaraj<\/a> @BDUTT<\/a> @abhisar_sharma<\/a> @akashbanerjee<\/a> @sakshijoshii<\/a> @bainjal<\/a> @dhruv_rathee<\/a> @ArvindKejriwal<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/9LzVftUiQd<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 KamDev Baba (@TheKamDevBaba) May 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This video was also tweeted by an account named Khabar Bar<\/a> with a message directed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take action against the culprits.<\/p>\n

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Dear @PMOIndia<\/a>,<\/p>\n

The below video in which two citizens are insulting #MahatmaGandhi<\/a> is extremely disturbing. We hope the culprits are traced and due action be taken.<\/p>\n

The date and location of the video is unknown.@narendramodi<\/a> @HMOIndia<\/a> #Democracy<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/cConNDiSxo<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Khabar Bar (@Khabar_Bar) May 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fact-check<\/h3>\n

With a simple keyword search on Google, Alt News was able to establish that the incident took place in Canada in August 2015. “Two men of South Asian descent have been filmed slapping a statue of Mahatma Gandhi with their hands and later their shoes. A third person has recorded this whole episode.”,\u00a0<\/em>reads the caption posted with a video uploaded on Bayside Journal<\/a> on August 17, 2015.<\/p>\n