On Sunday (September 24), Trinamool Congress chief Kirti Azad courted controversy after he falsely claimed that BJP employees mistook Canara Bank for Canada and had been protesting outsides its premises.
In a tweet (archive), the 64-year-old politician wrote, “BJP Sanghis assumed Canara Bank to be Canada and held demonstrations in front of the bank’s building.” The tweet was accompanied by an image of a bunch of individuals, standing outdoors Canara Bank with BJP flags in hand.
At the time of writing, the contentious tweet had greater than 2000 likes and 500 retweets. The former cricketer-turned-politician sought to take advantage of the continuing diplomatic pressure between India and Canada to attain political brownies.
Screengrab of the tweet by Kirti Azad
The Truth behind the picture
A fast ‘reverse Google image search’ of the picture led us to a information report, printed by Tamil each day ‘Maalai Malar’. The stated report was printed on August 30, 2020 i.e. 3 years in the past.
At the very onset, it grew to become clear that the image shared by Kirti Azad had nothing to do with the continuing diplomatic standoff between India and Canada.
The Maalai Malar report said that BJP employees held demonstrations in Ooty in opposition to the town administration for eradicating a flagpole, which was put in to hoist the celebration flag. The municipality had alleged that no prior permission was sought from them by the BJP.
‘Screengrab of the news report by Maalai Malar’
Thus, it clearly reveals that the BJP employees weren’t protesting in opposition to Canada in any type or method. It can be fascinating to notice that the unique image was photoshopped with one other picture of Canara Bank by Kirti Azad to lend credence to his doubtful claims.
This is nonetheless not the primary time that Kirti Azad has resorted to peddling faux information on social media. Earlier in February 2022, he falsely claimed that BJP leaders had been being thrashed by the widespread individuals in the course of the second part of polling in Uttar Pradesh.
In actuality, the video shouldn’t be from Uttar Pradesh however from the State of West Bengal. The sufferer within the incident was BJP chief Anirban Ganguly, who knowledgeable that he was attacked by Trinamool Congress-sponsored Jihadis.
Hi Kirti, amusing to see that you simply,Bhagwat Jha Azad’s son,can’t distinguish between the hinterlands of #WestBengal & #UttarPradesh!This is clip of a jihadi assault engineered by TMC on me on Election Day, April 30 2021.Having change into a FAMILY DOORMAT you could have misplaced your rationality! https://t.co/qfkH1XGlV4
— Dr. Anirban Ganguly অনির্বাণ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় (@anirbanganguly) February 12, 2022
In October 2022, Kirti Azad shared a faux quote attributed to RSS chief MS Golwalkar on Twitter, which claimed that he was prepared to tolerate British subjugation however not a authorities within the nation that granted Muslims and Dalits equal standing.
