{"id":38804,"date":"2019-06-17T18:38:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T13:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=38804"},"modified":"2019-06-17T18:38:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T13:08:41","slug":"mp-congress-posts-old-erroneous-report-about-arrest-of-bajrang-dal-members-links-it-to-wb-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mp-congress-posts-old-erroneous-report-about-arrest-of-bajrang-dal-members-links-it-to-wb-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Congress posts old, erroneous report about arrest of Bajrang Dal members, links it to WB violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The political situation in West Bengal has become volatile after the result of the 2019 general election. According to some media reports, a BJP worker was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/bjp-worker-killed-malda-west-bengal-1547078-2019-06-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killed<\/a> in post-poll violence in the state. In the midst of all this, Madhya Pradesh Congress tweeted via its official Twitter handle, <em>&#8220;BJP had got its workers killed in West Bengal, 11 Bajrang Dal members arrested&#8230;&#8221;(translation).\u00a0<\/em>Along with this tweet, a link to an article which appeared on<a href=\"https:\/\/m.dailyhunt.in\/news\/india\/hindi\/the+dailygraph-epaper-tdaigr\/pashchim+bangal+me+bjp+ne+hi+karai+thi+apane+karyakarta+ki+hatya+bajarang+dal+ke+11+karyakarta+giraphtar-newsid-89352406?ss=twt&amp;s=wi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <em>Daily Hunt<\/em><\/a>, was also shared.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u092a\u0936\u094d\u091a\u093f\u092e \u092c\u0902\u0917\u093e\u0932 \u092e\u0947 \u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0928\u0947 \u0939\u0940 \u0915\u0930\u093e\u092f\u0940 \u0925\u0940 \u0905\u092a\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u092f\u0915\u0930\u094d\u0924\u093e \u0915\u0940 \u0939\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e, \u092c\u091c\u0930\u0902\u0917 \u0926\u0932 \u0915\u0947 11 \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u092f\u0915\u0930\u094d\u0924\u093e \u0917\u093f\u0930\u092b\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0930..!<\/p>\n<p>\u0939\u0948\u0930\u093e\u0928 \u092e\u0924 \u0939\u094b\u0908\u092f\u0947 !<br \/>\n\u092b\u093c\u0930\u094d\u0915\u093c \u092c\u0938 \u0907\u0924\u0928\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0915\u093f \u092d\u093e\u091c\u092a\u093e \u0928\u0947 \u092c\u0902\u0917\u093e\u0932 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0928\u0915\u093e\u092c \u0909\u0924\u093e\u0930 \u0930\u0916\u093e \u0939\u0948\u0964<\/p>\n<p>\u0935\u0948\u0938\u0947, \u0905\u092a\u0928\u0947 \u0939\u0940 \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u092f\u0915\u0930\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0913\u0902 \u0915\u0940 \u0939\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0928\u093e \u0915\u0941\u091b \u091c\u093c\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0926\u093e \u0918\u0943\u0923\u093f\u0924 \u0928\u0939\u0940 \u0939\u094b \u0917\u092f\u093e..? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8w93YrjEYA\">https:\/\/t.co\/8w93YrjEYA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MP Congress (@INCMP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/INCMP\/status\/1138475955683508225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This write-up has been shared with the identical narrative by several Facebook and Twitter users. It was also posted on the official Facebook page of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/INCMadhyaPradesh\/posts\/2291736227572613?__tn__=-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INC Madhya Pradesh<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/INCMadhyaPradesh\/posts\/2291736227572613\" data-width=\"auto\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/INCMadhyaPradesh\/posts\/2291736227572613\"><p>\u092a\u0936\u094d\u091a\u093f\u092e \u092c\u0902\u0917\u093e\u0932 \u092e\u0947 \u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0928\u0947 \u0939\u0940 \u0915\u0930\u093e\u092f\u0940 \u0925\u0940 \u0905\u092a\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u092f\u0915\u0930\u094d\u0924\u093e \u0915\u0940 \u0939\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e, \u092c\u091c\u0930\u0902\u0917 \u0926\u0932 \u0915\u0947 11 \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u092f\u0915\u0930\u094d\u0924\u093e \u0917\u093f\u0930\u092b\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0930..!<\/p>\n<p>\u0939\u0948\u0930\u093e\u0928 \u092e\u0924 \u0939\u094b\u0908\u092f\u0947&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/INCMadhyaPradesh\/\">Indian National Congress &#8211; Madhya Pradesh<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/INCMadhyaPradesh\/posts\/2291736227572613\">Tuesday, June 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>OLD, MISLEADING REPORT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This claim about the murder of BJP workers at the hands of 11 Bajrang Dal members, is based on an incident which had taken place in 2018. An article related to this had appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/m.dailyhunt.in\/news\/india\/hindi\/the+dailygraph-epaper-tdaigr\/pashchim+bangal+me+bjp+ne+hi+karai+thi+apane+karyakarta+ki+hatya+bajarang+dal+ke+11+karyakarta+giraphtar-newsid-89352406?ss=twt&amp;s=wi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>NewsHunt (DailyHunt)<\/em><\/a> on June 4, 2018. This report had been published by <em>ANI<\/em> as well, but it was later removed.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newslaundry.com\/shorts\/ani-pulls-down-erroneous-story-on-11-bajrang-dal-activists-being-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>NewsLaundry<\/em><\/a>, the arrest of Bajrang Dal members was related to violence at Ram Navami, and not over the murder of BJP workers. <em>ANI<\/em> had told <em>NewsLaundry<\/em> that the article published by it was factually incorrect and hence, was taken off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-38809\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/ani_bajrang-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/ani_bajrang-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/ani_bajrang-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/ani_bajrang-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/ani_bajrang-990x557.png 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/ani_bajrang-470x264.png 470w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/ani_bajrang-640x360.png 640w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/ani_bajrang-215x120.png 215w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/ani_bajrang-414x232.png 414w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/ani_bajrang.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Times of India <\/em>and <em>Deccan Chronicle<\/em> too had published reports related to the incident, which were<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newslaundry.com\/shorts\/ani-pulls-down-erroneous-story-on-11-bajrang-dal-activists-being-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> later removed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The claim by Madhya Pradesh Congress, that 11 Bajrang Dal members were arrested for the murder of BJP workers, is incorrect and based on an erroneous report which was later taken down. Moreover, the incident of the arrest of Bajrang Dal members is old, yet being shared currently on social media with a new, false narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political situation in West Bengal has become volatile after the result of the 2019 general election. According to some media reports, a BJP worker was killed in post-poll violence in the state. In the midst of all this, Madhya Pradesh Congress tweeted via its official Twitter handle, &#8220;BJP had got its workers killed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":38811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[664],"class_list":["post-38804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-politics","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/fi_mpcong.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38804","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38814,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38804\/revisions\/38814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38804"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=38804"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=38804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}