{"id":75752,"date":"2020-09-17T16:34:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T11:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=75752"},"modified":"2020-09-17T17:46:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T12:16:24","slug":"old-images-viral-as-students-protesting-against-unemployment-in-lucknow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-images-viral-as-students-protesting-against-unemployment-in-lucknow\/","title":{"rendered":"Old images viral as police crackdown on students protesting against unemployment in Lucknow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook user Sanjeeb Kashyap shared a set of photographs<\/a> of police cracking down on protesters. “Providing jobs to unemployed youth today in Lucknow…Long live Yogi ji, you’re a tiger. (\u092c\u0947\u0930\u094b\u091c\u0917\u093e\u0930 \u091b\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0930\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u0906\u091c \u0932\u0916\u0928\u090a \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0928\u094c\u0915\u0930\u0940 \u0926\u0947\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0941\u0935\u0947 …\u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940 \u091c\u0940 \u091c\u093f\u092f\u094b \u092e\u0939\u093e\u0930\u093e\u091c \u0906\u092a \u0936\u0947\u0930 \u0939\u094b \u0936\u0947\u0930.)” – read the accompanying message. His post from September 13 drew 8,500 shares.<\/p>\n

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The images have been shared against the backdrop of growing unemployment in the country. A joint report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimated job loss for 4.1 million<\/a> youth due to COVID-19. India’s rural unemployment rate<\/a> touched a nine-week high last month. On September 5, citizens across the country organised a ‘thali bajao’ protest at 5 pm for 5 minutes against rising prices and unemployment and the government’s decision to hold competitive examinations. The protests<\/a> were also held in Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n

Several Facebook<\/a> and Twitter users have shared the images claiming students protested against joblessness in Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n

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\u092c\u0947\u0930\u094b\u091c\u0917\u093e\u0930 \u091b\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0930\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u0906\u091c \u0932\u0916\u0928\u090a \u092e\u0947\u0902
\n\u0928\u094c\u0915\u0930\u0940 \u0926\u0947\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0941\u0935\u0947 …\u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940 \u091c\u0940
\n\u091c\u093f\u092f\u094b \u092e\u0939\u093e\u0930\u093e\u091c \u0906\u092a \u0936\u0947\u0930 \u0939\u094b \u0936\u0947\u0930 …….#NationalUnemploymentDay<\/a> #\u092c\u0947\u0930\u094b\u091c\u0917\u093e\u0930_\u092e\u093e\u0902\u0917\u0947_\u0930\u094b\u091c\u0917\u093e\u0930<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/MwAOFbeVQt<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jay Singh (@singhjay96) September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fact-check<\/h4>\n

We found that the photographs viral on social media are old. The first image of a bleeding man was found in a 2018 tweet by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. The photograph depicts protests held by young aspirants<\/a> of UP teacher’s recruitment outside the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in November 2018. A report published by The Week<\/a> on November 2, 2018, stated, “The police used canes to disperse people protesting here Friday against two court rulings that quashed the selection of over 12,000 government teachers and ordered a CBI probe into the process to appoint 68,500 more.”<\/p>\n

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The image was used in a report by Amar Ujala<\/a> on the protest.<\/p>\n

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This image was also debunked by Alt News last year<\/a> when it was circulating with the false claim that goons of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee thrashed supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/p>\n

The other two images are also of the same protest that took place in Lucknow two years ago. Twitter handle UttarPradesh.Org News<\/a> tweeted one of the pictures captioned, “Protesters still adamant on their demand, they’re asking for 30 and 33 cut-off. (\u092a\u094d\u0930\u0926\u0930\u094d\u0936\u0928\u0915\u093e\u0930\u0940 \u0905\u092d\u0940 \u092d\u0940 \u0905\u092a\u0928\u0940 \u092e\u093e\u0902\u0917 \u092a\u0930 \u0905\u0921\u093c\u0947, 30 \u0914\u0930 33 \u0915\u091f\u0911\u092b \u0915\u0940 \u0915\u0930 \u0930\u0939\u0947 \u092e\u093e\u0902\u0917.)”<\/p>\n

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The third photograph was also shared around the same time with identical description<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Old images of UP teachers’ recruitment protest have been revived with the claim that students in Lucknow recently protested against joblessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facebook user Sanjeeb Kashyap shared a set of photographs of police cracking down on protesters. “Providing jobs to unemployed youth today in Lucknow…Long live Yogi ji, you’re a tiger. (\u092c\u0947\u0930\u094b\u091c\u0917\u093e\u0930 \u091b\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0930\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u0906\u091c \u0932\u0916\u0928\u090a \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0928\u094c\u0915\u0930\u0940 \u0926\u0947\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0941\u0935\u0947 …\u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940 \u091c\u0940 \u091c\u093f\u092f\u094b \u092e\u0939\u093e\u0930\u093e\u091c \u0906\u092a \u0936\u0947\u0930 \u0939\u094b \u0936\u0947\u0930.)” – read the accompanying message. His post from September […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":75765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-75752","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\/09\/Untitled-design-8.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75752","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75752"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75779,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75752\/revisions\/75779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75752"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=75752"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=75752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}