{"id":89456,"date":"2021-04-02T17:25:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=89456"},"modified":"2021-04-02T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:55:42","slug":"congress-shares-blurred-video-to-portray-pm-modi-waving-in-empty-field-deletes-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/congress-shares-blurred-video-to-portray-pm-modi-waving-in-empty-field-deletes-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress shares blurred video to portray PM Modi waving in empty field, deletes later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blurred video of Prime Minister Modi waving in what looks like an empty field was shared by Congress and later taken down. An archived link to the tweet can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210402102421\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/incindia\/status\/1377926978444029957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89458 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/b2565cda-21cd-419f-aa03-49b4515301d4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"947\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/b2565cda-21cd-419f-aa03-49b4515301d4.jpg 947w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/b2565cda-21cd-419f-aa03-49b4515301d4-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/b2565cda-21cd-419f-aa03-49b4515301d4-768x569.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 947px) 100vw, 947px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was also shared in now-deleted tweets by chairman of Congress social media department Rohan Gupta and Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas BV.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-89456 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/congress-shares-blurred-video-to-portray-pm-modi-waving-in-empty-field-deletes-later\/rohantweet\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/RohanTweet.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/RohanTweet.png 584w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/RohanTweet-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/congress-shares-blurred-video-to-portray-pm-modi-waving-in-empty-field-deletes-later\/srini\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"458\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/srini.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/srini.jpg 458w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/srini-155x300.jpg 155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Film director Avinash Das tweet carrying the video was reshared by journalist Ranvijay Singh.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u092f\u0947 \u092d\u0940 \u0920\u0940\u0915 \u0939\u0948<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AhmdESXuAG\">pic.twitter.com\/AhmdESXuAG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ranvijay Singh (@ranvijaylive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ranvijaylive\/status\/1377908402710409216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congress supporting handles <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210402111733\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpiritOfCongres\/status\/1377917737415012355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SpiritOfCongress<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210402111923\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suvarnashre\/status\/1377911148637343745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Suvarna Shreya<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210402111823\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/fekubawa\/status\/1377890361897447424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@fekubawa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210402112001\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/reshma_alam9\/status\/1377913002045755397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reshma Alam<\/a> further amplified the claim. Alam&#8217;s tweet was quote-tweeted by actor <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210402115432\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/KubbraSait\/status\/1377937481513922560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kubbra Sait<\/a>. The video is also making the rounds on Instagram. Below is a post by the page &#8216;unbhakt&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CNKQKYSnpQ4\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row;align-items: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 40px;margin-right: 14px;width: 40px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 100px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 60px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 50px;margin: 0 auto 12px;width: 50px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 550;line-height: 18px\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row;margin-bottom: 14px;align-items: center\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px;flex-grow: 0;margin-right: 14px;margin-left: 2px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 20px;width: 20px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 2px solid transparent;border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4;border-bottom: 2px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-right: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;flex-grow: 0;height: 12px;width: 16px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-left: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center;margin-bottom: 24px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 224px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 144px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 16px\">\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 17px;margin-bottom: 0;margin-top: 8px;overflow: hidden;padding: 8px 0 7px;text-align: center\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 17px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CNKQKYSnpQ4\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A post shared by Andh-Bhakt (@unbhakt)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>Blurred and muted video<\/h4>\n<p>The video shared by Congress leaders and supporters of the party is heavily blurred and the sound of cheering in the background is muted. The original video was shared by BJP on April 1. It shows PM Modi waving at a large crowd beyond the fenced field. It was shot in Jaynagar, West Bengal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Scenes from PM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@narendramodi<\/a>&#8216;s rally in Jaynagar have the unmissable message of Ashol Poriborton in Bengal.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EbarSonarBanglaEbarBJP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EbarSonarBanglaEbarBJP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ArqLqTcIwM\">pic.twitter.com\/ArqLqTcIwM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BJP (@BJP4India) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BJP4India\/status\/1377582817291329539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same video was also uploaded by The Times of India.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lhn7S9157xc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lhn7S9157xc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congress and its leaders and supporters shared blurred and muted video to portray PM Modi waving in an empty field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blurred video of Prime Minister Modi waving in what looks like an empty field was shared by Congress and later taken down. An archived link to the tweet can be accessed here. It was also shared in now-deleted tweets by chairman of Congress social media department Rohan Gupta and Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":89464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-89456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/Untitled-design-2021-04-02T172147.839.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89456","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=89456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89465,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89456\/revisions\/89465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89456"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=89456"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=89456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}