No, Khalistan supporters were not 'invited' to INC event in UK, they gate-crashed the event - Alt News
Jignesh Patel
24th November 2018 / 12:53 pm / Last updated: 19th March 2019
कैसे सौंप दु मै काँग्रेस को अपना देश,आप ही बताओ…लंदन मे राहुल गांधी की सभा मे पहुचे खलीस्थानी आतकंवादी…काँग्रेस पार्टी जिंदाबाद और हिंदुस्थान मुर्दाबाद नारे लगाये…👇👇 (How do I hand over my country to Congress, you tell me. Khalistan terrorists attend Rahul Gandhi’s meeting in London … Congress party Zindabad and Hindustan Murdabad slogans were raised -translated). A video of Khalistan supporters raising anti-India slogans at a meeting addressed by Rahul Gandhi in London is once again circulating on social media. It is being claimed that these Sikh protesters were attending the meeting, where they raised anti-India and pro-congress slogans.
V K Choudhary, an individual user was one of the earliest to share this video with this narrative. Many social media users on Facebook and Twitter have shared with this video with the same claim. A scroll on Facebook shows how viral it is on Facebook.
In August this year, Alt News had debunked this video. The protesters had gatecrashed the event, seizing a lapse in security. According to Naomi Canton, who reports for Times of India in the UK, the event was interrupted by four protesters who had “managed to evade heavy security to enter Rahul Gandhi’s event.”
TOI speaks to the Khalistani intruders who gatecrashed Rahul’s event https://t.co/Eq44dogy6C
— Naomi Canton (@naomi2009) August 27, 2018
Speaking to TOI, Shamsher Singh, spokesperson for the National Sikh Youth Federation who had gatecrashed the event with three of his associates said, “We slipped in through a side door to the venue at 5.30pm as the security was lax. Once inside, security asked us a few questions but we confidently walked through and said we are here for the event. We got a table and sat down.”
This is yet another instance where misinformation has been circulated in an organized manner in the election season.
Jignesh is a writer and researcher at Alt News. He has a knack for visual investigation with a major interest in fact-checking videos and images. He has completed his Masters in Journalism from Gujarat University.
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