{"id":56830,"date":"2020-01-21T19:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T13:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=56830"},"modified":"2020-01-21T19:07:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T13:37:57","slug":"no-pm-modis-wife-jashodaben-did-not-attend-anti-caa-rally-at-shaheen-bagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-pm-modis-wife-jashodaben-did-not-attend-anti-caa-rally-at-shaheen-bagh\/","title":{"rendered":"No, PM Modi’s wife Jashodaben did not attend anti-CAA rally at Shaheen Bagh"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photograph of a group of women is being shared with the claim that it shows Jashodaben, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wife, attending a rally against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Shaheen Bagh.<\/p>\n

The image shared by a Facebook group Mj Khan Indian<\/a> has received 8,200 shares and 593 likes. It was posted on January 18 with a caption that reads, “\u092e\u094b\u0926\u0940 \u091c\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u092a\u0924\u094d\u0928\u0940 #\u091c\u0938\u094b\u0926\u093e_\u092c\u0947\u0928 \u092d\u0940 \u0906\u091c \u0936\u093e\u0939\u0940\u0928 \u092c\u093e\u0917 \u092a\u0939\u0941\u091a \u0917\u0908\u0964 (Jashodaben also reached Shaheen Bagh today.)”<\/em><\/p>\n

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The image has been shared<\/a> with the same narrative on a Facebook page dedicated to lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat.<\/p>\n

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FACT-CHECK<\/h2>\n

Alt News ran a reverse image search and discovered the same image uploaded on a Deccan Chronicle<\/em><\/a> report from February 13, 2016. The woman in the pink saree is Jashodaben Modi. She was part of a hunger strike against the demolition of slums in Mumbai. The protest was held at Azad Maidan.<\/p>\n

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Similar images were uploaded by Mid-Day<\/a>,\u00a0Catch News<\/a> <\/em>and\u00a0The Hindu<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

FALSE CLAIM VIRAL<\/h2>\n

Alt News has received several requests to verify the truth behind the viral picture.<\/p>\n

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That PM Modi wife attended an anti-CAA rally is a claim viral on social media. From the account of one Madina Khan Barkat Khan<\/a>, it drew over 700 shares and likes.<\/p>\n

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The misinformation was shared by a parody account of media outlet\u00a0Aaj Tak (@AajTak422).<\/em><\/p>\n

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A similar tweet was posted by a parody handle of comedian Kunal Kamra.<\/p>\n

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The claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wife Jashodaben attended an anti-CAA rally at Shaheen Bagh is completely false. A three-year-old picture of her attending a protest against the demolition of slums in Mumbai has been shared to propagate the misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A photograph of a group of women is being shared with the claim that it shows Jashodaben, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wife, attending a rally against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Shaheen Bagh. The image shared by a Facebook group Mj Khan Indian has received 8,200 shares and 593 likes. It was posted on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":56913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[683],"class_list":["post-56830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/Untitled-design-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56830","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56919,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56830\/revisions\/56919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56830"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=56830"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}