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| - Fact Check: Old clip of inverted tricolour in Cong hoardings VIRAL as Priyanka Gandhi visits Bengaluru
India Today Fact Check found that the video is almost a year old and from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, and dates back to June 2023. It is unrelated to the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.
Ahead of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s visit to Bengaluru, allegations of the grand old party using the upside down Indian flag in hoardings about her rallies in the city were widely shared online.
Many shared a video, captured from inside a moving vehicle, to show these hoardings. One such post on X read, "Upcoming Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra rally posters in Bengaluru show Indian flag upside down, with green on top, video goes viral."
On Facebook and Instagram, the video was shared with captions like, "Indian Flag upside down, with green on top in the posters of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at the Upcoming rally of Congress in Bengaluru. Congress and Gandhi family leave no chance to insult India and Indian national flag." Their archives can be seen here and here.
India Today Fact Check found that the video is nearly a year old and not from Bengaluru.
OUR PROBE
A reverse search of keyframes from the viral video led us to a Facebook post from June 12, 2023, shared by Prahlad Singh Patel, the State Minister of Panchayat Rural Development and Labour in Madhya Pradesh.
While sharing a bit extended version of the same video, Patel called out the state Congress unit for using an upside-down tricolour in their banners. He wrote: "Jabalpur is the cultural capital, where the Flag Satyagraha movement first started by hoisting the tricolour in the town hall. And now this is today's picture. You decide."
A subsequent search led us to June 2023 reports published in IBC24 and Zee News about how the Bharatiya Janata Party leader accused Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of insulting the national flag after she arrived in Jabalpur to kick-start the campaign for the 2023 Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections.
Another report published in Nai Duniya featured an image of the banner in question. Per this report, the BJP filed an FIR against the senior officials of the Congress party for insulting the tricolour.
We also found a video on YouTube, uploaded by a local news outlet on June 13, 2023, showing a protest by the BJP and Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in Jabalpur against the alleged insult of the national flag by the Congress party.
It is therefore evident that the video is old and has nothing to do with Bengaluru.
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