A video of men in green jerseys sloganeering in Malayalam is being dubbed as pro-Pakistan activism in Kerala by social media users. In the video, the men are waving green flags that have a crescent moon and a star.
X user Anoop Antony Joseph (@AnoopKaippalli), former national secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), BJP’s youth wing, shared the video on April 19, 2025, with a snide comment on secularism in the state. (Archive)
‘Secular Kerala!’ pic.twitter.com/4C8kirSuOy
— Anoop Antony Joseph (@AnoopKaippalli) April 19, 2025
The post had garnered 145,000 views at the time of writing this.
Pro-Right X user, Raushan Sinha (@MrSinha_), also shared the video, urging people to notice the jersey, flags, and the Islamic slogans. “No this isn’t Pakistan, or Bangladesh but Kerala…. Yes an Indian state…We are doomed,” he wrote. (Archive)
Look at their clothes, flags, Islamic slogans….
No this isn’t Pakistan, or Bangladesh but Kerala…. Yes an Indian state…We are doomed…pic.twitter.com/HyO98HvvwW
— Mr Sinha (@MrSinha_) April 19, 2025
The post had racked up over 800,000 views at the time of writing this.
Note that Alt News has fact-checked misinformation shared by this user on multiple occasions.
Another X account, Rocket Scientist (@Rockumon), shared the purported video and alleged that the men in the video wore wearing Pakistan-linked jerseys, waved Pakistani flags, and yet Kerala is called secular. (Archive)
The dress is Pakistani, the flag is Pakistani, the soul and voice echo Pakistan — all in the name of religion. Yet they still call it secular Kerala. pic.twitter.com/GDqrutlCIT
— Rocket Scientist 🇮🇳 (@Rockumon) April 19, 2025
Pakistan-based X user @lmrankhanISP1, whose account is currently withheld in India, shared a similar video on April 25, claiming that Kerala stood with Pakistan. The slogans used by demonstrators in this video were slightly different from the ones above. (Archive)
Alt News received several requests to fact check the video and claims on WhatsApp (+91 7600011160).
Fact Check
We first asked someone familiar with the language to translate what the sloganeering was referring to.
It roughly translates to:
“We are raised in green
Let us say it clearly
We are CH’s blood
We are CH’s kids
We are the kids from/of Panakkad
Green indeed, we are green
We are raised in green
Let us say it clearly
We are CH’s kids
We are CH’s blood
Muslim League… Muslim League…”
The person who translated this also told us that CH here refers to C H Mohammed Koya, former leader of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).
Slogans in the second video shared by the Pakistan-based account translate to:
“The star of Panakkad that god created for this community
Ya Sayyad Sadiq Ali Thangal, you
Lead us with courage…”
Sayyad Sadiq Ali Thangal is the leader of IUML in Panakkad. Thus slogans used by the demonstrators in both videos have no mention of Pakistan.
Second, we took a close look at the jerseys in the two videos and found “Arangadi” written on them. This is a village in the Kanhangad municipality of Kasaragod district in Kerala. So, the jerseys don’t have a Pakistan link.
Thirdly, the green flags in the demonstrations were of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and not Pakistan. The Pakistan flag, while also green and bearing the crescent moon and star, has a white band on the left.
Fourthly, to understand what the demonstration in the videos was about, we did a reverse-image search on some key frames. This led us to an Instagram account @arangadi_official_page that had uploaded a video on April 16, 2025, with the caption ‘Kozhikode’. Note that this is the official page of the IUML Arandagi and the video was identical to the one shared by the Pakistan-based account.
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While going through this Instagram page, we also found a video shared on April 25 where the same people in the viral clip are seen from a different angle. The caption translates to, “It’s sad to see so many idiots who don’t even know which (is the) league’s flag (and which) is Pakistan’s. Try to comment only after you understand what this demonstration is for. The idiots are misleading you, be careful 💚”
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We compared the viral clip and the one on this page for clarity below:
We also found a poster shared by the same account on April 15, 2025, asking people to join a rally against the amendment of the Waqf Act the following day (April 16).
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To corroborate that the demonstration was related to the passage of the Waqf Bill (now Act), we looked for news reports from around that time. A Times of India report said that on April 16, the IUML staged a major Waqf protection rally in Kozhikode. Note that there were nationwide protests against the Waqf Amendment Bill around that period. On April 16, Maktoob Media also reported that many people joined the IUML protest against the new Waqf law in Kozhikode.
So, the rally or demonstration was related to the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, that was approved by the Parliament in the first week of April. It had nothing to do with Pakistan.
To sum up, the two viral clips showing men in green jerseys and waving green flags sloganeering are not of a pro-Pakistan demonstration in Kerala but of protests by members of the Indian Union Muslim League, Arangadi. The protests were regarding the amendments to the Waqf Board and Council that was approved by the Parliament. Also, the flags in the footage are IUML flags, not Pakistan and the jerseys, too, are unrelated to the neighbouring country.
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