{"id":49494,"date":"2019-10-24T21:06:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=49494"},"modified":"2019-10-24T21:16:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:46:39","slug":"ians-ndtv-use-old-photo-to-claim-bjps-pankaja-munde-wept-after-electoral-loss-delete-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/ians-ndtv-use-old-photo-to-claim-bjps-pankaja-munde-wept-after-electoral-loss-delete-later\/","title":{"rendered":"IANS, NDTV use old photo to claim BJP’s Pankaja Munde wept after electoral loss; delete later"},"content":{"rendered":"

News agency IANS<\/em> tweeted<\/a> a photo of Pankaja Munde, the BJP candidate from Maharastra’s Parli assembly seat, who was defeated in the recently-concluded assembly elections. The news agency’s tweet read, “#BJP’s heavyweight and #Maharashtra minister #PankajaMunde weeps inconsolably after her shock defeat in #Parli (Beed) seat by her estranged cousin, #NCP Leader of Opposition in Legislative Council #DhananjayMunde. Photo: IANS”.<\/em> The tweet now stands deleted but an archived version can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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SCREENSHOT OF A THREE-DAY-OLD BROADCAST<\/h2>\n

This photo is a screengrab taken from a TV9 Marathi<\/em><\/a> broadcast from October 20, 2019. “Exclusive interview with Pankaja Munde before voting (translated)”<\/em>, reads the title of YouTube video posted by the channel. One can see that the thumbnail of the YouTube video is the photo which was posted by IANS.\u00a0<\/em>Twitter user Riaz Ahmed had shared the video<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n