{"id":85075,"date":"2021-01-26T18:56:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=85075"},"modified":"2021-01-26T20:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:42:39","slug":"farmers-protest-no-protestors-did-not-replace-tricolour-with-khalistan-flag-at-red-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/farmers-protest-no-protestors-did-not-replace-tricolour-with-khalistan-flag-at-red-fort\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers’ protest: No, protestors did not replace tricolour with Khalistan flag at Red Fort"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the protests against the centre’s farm bills, farmers’ unions and the Delhi police had chalked out agreed-upon circular routes from Ghazipur, Singhu and Tikri borders for the Republic Day tractor parades. It was decided that the protestors will enter Delhi but remain in areas near the border from the three entry points. Several protesting groups, however, veered off the course and were met with police lathicharge and tear gas shells. They entered the iconic Red Fort and hoisted flags from some domes and from a flagstaff, on the ramparts of the fort, used to unfurl the tricolour on Independence Day.<\/p>\n

This sparked two widespread claims \u2013 1) the protestors took down the Indian national flag and 2) replaced the tricolour with Khalistan flag.<\/p>\n

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Indian Flag Removed Flag of Khalistan is waving on Red Fort.
\nHistoric Moments.#IndianRepublicBlackDay<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/HWsrlDvVDQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Pakistan First (@APMLOfficial_) January 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“What point are these farmers trying to make by replacing the tricolour with their religious flag?” questioned Sonam Mahajan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Editor-in-chief of Times Now Rahul Shivshankar also claimed<\/a> that the tricolour was replaced. But he added that the one hoisted was a flag of farmers’ union or religious sect.<\/p>\n

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Disquieting assault on our most visible national symbol. That too on #RepublicDay<\/a>. Our Tricolour replaced at iconic flagpole at #RedFort<\/a>. Was this protest always about undermining our State? | #RDaySpiritShamed<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Bfp1psRsAJ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rahul Shivshankar (@RShivshankar) January 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That the flag unfurled from the mast pole was the Khalistan flag is massively viral on social media. Among those who amplified the claim were BJP Delhi spokesperson Harish Khurana<\/a>, parliamentary secretary of Varun Gandhi Ishita Yadav<\/a> and BJP supporters Divya Kumar Soti<\/a>, Vikrant Kumar<\/a>, Sumit Kadel<\/a>, Sumit Kadel<\/a>, Sumeet Thakkar<\/a>, Anurag Dixit<\/a> and Shefali Vaidya<\/a>. Right-wing propaganda website OpIndia<\/a> also wrote in an article that protestors unfurled Khalistan flag from the Red Fort.<\/p>\n