{"id":55943,"date":"2020-01-11T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T13:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=55943"},"modified":"2020-01-11T19:04:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T13:34:10","slug":"bjp-mla-himanta-biswa-posts-cropped-photo-of-anti-caa-rally-in-assam-to-portray-poor-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/bjp-mla-himanta-biswa-posts-cropped-photo-of-anti-caa-rally-in-assam-to-portray-poor-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP MLA Himanta Biswa posts cropped photo of anti-CAA rally in Assam to portray poor turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"

On January 10, 2020, Assam BJP minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted an image where a crowd gathered at an anti-CAA rally was compared with the one at a pro-CAA rally in Dhemaji, Assam. “here are 2 Dhemaji pictures that sum up the mood in Assam. Need I say more?”,\u00a0<\/em>said<\/a> Sarma while tweeting the image. Sarma attended to portray a much larger gathering at the pro-CAA rally,<\/p>\n

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here are 2 Dhemaji pictures that sum up the mood in Assam. Need I say more?#AssamAlwaysAhead<\/a> @narendramodi<\/a> @AmitShah<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/xTJRW7RerG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) January 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cropped image of anti-CAA rally<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Alt News found that the image of the anti-CAA protest organized in Dhemaji is misleading. A video<\/a> of the rally organized by All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) on January 9, 2020, clearly depicts that the picture used in the comparison by Sarma shows a smaller crowd than in reality. Below is a drone video of the rally tweeted by Assam journalist Atanu Bhuyan.<\/p>\n

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Challenging BJP\u2019s peace rally in Dhemaji yesterday, Jatiya Sangathans organised another rally in Dhemaji today. A sea of people spontaneously participated in the rally #CAAProtests<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ekc68s4AsT<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 atanu bhuyan (@atanubhuyan) January 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Twitter user Sanjib Gogoi also posted<\/a> an image that gives an aerial view of the rally in Dhemaji, Assam.<\/p>\n

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Dhemaji against #CAA<\/a> #AssamRejectsCAA<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ftdf3voW5w<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sanjib gogoi (@SanjibgogoiASM) January 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the comparison below, a drone’s eye view of the anti-CAA rally is compared with the image shared by Sarma on Twitter.
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This can also be corroborated with pictures tweeted<\/a> by Lurinjyoti Gogoi, the General Secretary of AASU.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Lurinjyoti Gogoi (@lurinjtgogoi) January 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Several other pictures<\/a> taken from a different angle give a better view of the mass gathering at the anti-CAA rally.<\/p>\n

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#No<\/a> #CAA<\/a>
\nToday at #dhemaji<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/k1LJpJONfW<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Axom (@Axom31485293) January 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In conclusion, Himanta Biswa Sarma misleadingly compared a cropped image of an anti-CAA rally with a pro-CAA rally to portray mass support for the newly enacted Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On January 10, 2020, Assam BJP minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted an image where a crowd gathered at an anti-CAA rally was compared with the one at a pro-CAA rally in Dhemaji, Assam. “here are 2 Dhemaji pictures that sum up the mood in Assam. Need I say more?”,\u00a0said Sarma while tweeting the image. Sarma […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":55986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-55943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-economics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/Anti-CAA-rally.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55943"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56182,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943\/revisions\/56182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55943"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=55943"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}