A video is being shared on social media naming the communal color. In the video, a huge crowd of people can be seen waving saffron flags in front of the mosque. There, objectionable slogans for Pakistan can be heard being chanted by the crowd in the video.
It is being claimed that this video is from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. Where people of the Muslim community raised slogans of Pakistan Zindabad from the mosque. The next day, Hindus staged a demonstration by surrounding the same mosque. This video was shared on X by many verified and non-verified users.
- A verified X handle named The Hindu Sena shared the video and wrote – Muslims in Ujjain raised slogans of Pakistan Zindabad from the mosque in their procession. The very next day, the Hindus there surrounded the mosque and demonstrated. Even if such unity is shown, not a single person will dare to take the name of Pakistan. ( archive )
More than 6 lakh people have watched the video shared by The Hindu Sena so far. There, it has over 35 thousand likes and over 10 thousand retweets.
- Another verified user named Sandeep Mishra also shared this video with this claim and caption. ( archive )
- Another verified user also shared this video giving a communal angle. ( archive )
The truth behind the viral video… To find out the truth of the viral video, we reverse searched the keyframes of the video on Yandex. In the search results we found this video on a YouTube channel
On listening carefully to this video on the channel, we did not hear any such slogans anywhere, which are being heard in the viral video. The title of the video reads – Ram Navami Utsav, Kalaburagi 2019. This video was published on the channel on 30 July 2019.
Screenshot of the video available on YouTube channel.
In the second phase of investigation we searched Google for keywords related to Kalaburagi Masjid. In the search results we found that the mosque seen in the viral video is Bargah-e-Qadri Chaman. Which is located in Kalaburagi city of Karnataka.
So clear that The claim made about viral videos on social media is completely false . At the same time, no such objectionable slogans can be heard in the actual video present on the YouTube channel, which has been edited into the viral video.
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