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He was apparently slapped by the chief guest and Vedic scholar Swami Vidyanand Videh, who objected to Nehru&#8217;s remark and retorted that Aryans are the original inhabitants of Bharat and that it is Nehru who has Arab blood in his veins. It is further mentioned that the same is cited in a book penned by the swami.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/omprakash.sharan.5\/posts\/2976506819118582\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/omprakash.sharan.5\/posts\/2976506819118582\"><p>To what extent it is true, we can judge .As Nehru was among Statesman, whom India trust .<br \/>\nWhen Nehru got a slap on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a role=\"button\" href=\"#\">Om Sharan<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/omprakash.sharan.5\/posts\/2976506819118582\">Wednesday, 20 January 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<h4>\u00a0Viral since 2019<\/h4>\n<p>The photo and the message with identical text were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top\/?q=When%20Nehru%20got%20a%20slap%20on%20the%20face%20by%20Swami%20Vidyanand%20Videh%20post%2062%20debacle&amp;epa=SEARCH_BOX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> by several individual users on Facebook in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru1.png 450w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru1-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same has been shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=When%20Nehru%20got%20a%20slap%20on%20the%20face%20by&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Alt News also found the same text in a<a href=\"http:\/\/viveksurange.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/637-2037.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> blog<\/a> published in 2016.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1.<br \/>\nWhen Nehru got a slap on the face (virtual gan*pe laat) by Swami Vidyanand Videh post 62 debacle.<br \/>\nReason:Nehru in his speech had said &#8220;Aryas were refugees in India&#8221;, hearing this Swami who was also the Chief guest got up went up 2 the stage and slapped Nehru,pulled d mike<br \/>\n1\/3 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y6pDsH54jq\">pic.twitter.com\/y6pDsH54jq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 G V Nair\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3NaMo\ud83d\ude4f (@gvnair91) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gvnair91\/status\/1174269062991548419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4><strong>FACT CHECK<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The social media claim which accompanies the photograph is false. Alt News had earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/was-nehru-thrashed-by-a-mob-in-1962-after-failure-on-china-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fact-checked<\/a> this photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru, wherein he appears to be restrained by being held from the back, when it was circulated with a false narrative referring to 1962 and the Sino-Indian war.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>PHOTO PERTAINS TO UNRELATED INCIDENT FROM 1962<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>While it is true that this photograph is from 1962, it is in no way related to the Sino-Indian war or its political aftershocks. Reverse-searching the image on Google, Alt News found that it had appeared in an article in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/photos\/people\/jawaharlal-nehru\/12055\/?photono=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Outlook<\/a> magazine published in 2014. The photograph was captioned, &#8216;Braced for the worst: Nehru is prevented from plunging into a riotous crowd in 1962, before the war&#8217;.\u00a0The image was credited to Associated Press (AP).<\/p>\n<p>Searching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apimages.com\/metadata\/Index\/Associated-Press-International-News-India-NEHRU-\/8706aef3fae6da11af9f0014c2589dfb\/1\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a> archives with the key words &#8216;Nehru 1962&#8217;, Alt News found the picture and also the correct narrative describing it &#8211; \u201cA security man grabbed Indian Prime Minister Nehru to keep him from plunging into a riotous crowd at a meeting of the Congress Party in Patna, India, January 1962. Later in the year, Communist China\u2019s attack on India plunged Nehru into new troubles.\u201d This implies that the photograph was taken before the Indo-Sino war in 1962.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru4-1024x489.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru4-1024x489.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru4-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru4-768x366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru4-990x472.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru4-1320x630.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru4.jpg 1687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><strong>CLICKED IN JANUARY 1962<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Alt News looked at newspaper reports of January 1962, and found that the photograph was clicked at the Congress session in Patna, which was held in January, 1962. The crowd at the plenary session had swelled, and as it moved closer to the dais to get a glimpse of the Prime Minister, pandemonium broke out, resulting in a stampede. The photograph was clicked at the moment when Nehru, in &#8220;personal effort to restore order&#8221;,\u00a0was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=1842&amp;dat=19620108&amp;id=vw8sAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=vsYEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=5381,693540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">restrained<\/a> by security personnel from plunging into the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru5.png 541w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/nehru5-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Alt News found no trace of the references cited in the message, two books named \u0935\u093f\u0926\u0947\u0939 \u0917\u093e\u0925\u093e: \u090f\u0915 \u0906\u0930\u094d\u092f \u0938\u0902\u0928\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0938\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u0921\u093e\u092f\u0930\u0940\u00a0and \u0928\u0947\u0939\u0930\u0942 : \u0909\u0924\u094d\u0925\u093e\u0928 \u0914\u0930 \u092a\u0924\u0928.<\/p>\n<p>Alt News had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/was-nehru-thrashed-by-a-mob-in-1962-after-failure-on-china-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fact-checked<\/a> this image earlier, when it was shared with the false narrative of Nehru thrashed by a mob after failure in the 1962 war. It is noteworthy that the photograph was clicked in January 1962, whereas the Sino-Indian war broke out in October that year. The same image has been circulated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/was-nehru-thrashed-by-a-mob-in-1962-after-failure-on-china-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one more<\/a> false narrative- of Nehru arrested in Kashmir in 1946 as he attempted to enter without a visa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photograph of India&#8217;s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been shared widely on social media, along with an elaborate message which reads, &#8220;When Nehru got a slap on the face ( virtual gan* pe laat ) by Swami Vidyanand Videh post 62 debacle . 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