{"id":56440,"date":"2020-01-15T19:46:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T14:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=56440"},"modified":"2020-01-15T21:20:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:50:29","slug":"fictitious-politician-anil-upadhyaya-makes-a-comeback-now-as-bjp-mla-criticising-caa-nrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fictitious-politician-anil-upadhyaya-makes-a-comeback-now-as-bjp-mla-criticising-caa-nrc\/","title":{"rendered":"Fictitious politician ‘Anil Upadhyaya’ makes a comeback, now as BJP MLA criticising CAA\/NRC"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video of a politician is being shared in with the claim that he is ‘BJP MLA Anil Upadhayay’ criticising the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).<\/p>\n

\n

Bjp mla Anil upadhyaya.<\/p>\n

Posted by Mohammedali Mannaril<\/a> on Wednesday, 8 January 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

In the video, he says that the government is asking for proof of ancestral evidence from Muslims and cites Red Fort, Char Minar and Qutub Minar as examples.<\/p>\n

FACT-CHECK<\/h2>\n

At about 30 seconds into the video, the name of the politicians appears on the screen – ‘Faruk Ahmed Spokesperson VBA MH’.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

A keyword search on YouTube led us to the same speech<\/a> uploaded on October 11, 2019. It is titled as, “VBA candidate Faruk Ahmed Press Conference at Nanded [Maharashtra] on 10 Oct 2019”.<\/em>\u00a0Based on this, Alt News located the full version of viral clip posted on December 20, 2019. This speech was made by Farukh Ahmed in Grant Dharna Pradarshan at Nanded.<\/p>\n