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| - Fact Check: Was Jaishankar asked to move to the back during Trump's inauguration?
The full video makes it clear that the woman asked a cameraperson to move to the back, not S Jaishankar.
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India Today Fact Check
The woman did not ask S Jaishankar to move. She asked a female cameraperson to move to the back.
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the US on January 20. Several prominent Indians were present at the ceremony, including Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar and Nita and Mukesh Ambani. Jaishankar represented the Indian government in the ceremony and was seated in the front row.
Social media, however, is now awash with rumours that Jaishankar was asked to sit in the back while the ceremony was going on. Alongside this assertion, people shared a video clip from the ceremony, in which a woman can be seen approaching Jaishankar and making a gesture. The text written in the video alleges that she asked him to leave but he refused.
Sharing this clip on X a person wrote, “Jaishankar was asked to stand in the back row at the presidential ceremony and he shamelessly refused. What more shame can he bring to the worlds largest democracy!”
India Today Fact Check found that the woman was actually asking a cameraperson to go to the back because she was standing in front of Jaishankar.
OUR PROBE
We saw “JICCC” written at the left corner of the viral clip. Taking a hint from this, we found the complete video of Trump’s inauguration ceremony on the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies’s YouTube channel, where it was live-streamed. In this video, Jaishankar could be seen in the front row since the start of the ceremony. At three hours, eight minutes, and 19 seconds, a woman cameraperson could be seen sitting beside the minister while everyone else stood. Then, the cameraperson went and sat in front of Jaishankar and started taking photos of the stage where everyone including Donald Trump and former US presidents was standing. The viral clip is taken from this part of the ceremony.
Then, at three hours, eight minutes, and 53 seconds, a woman from the other row could be seen walking up to the cameraperson and touching her shoulder, asking her to go to the back. This made it clear the woman did not touch Jaishankar’s shoulder as claimed in the viral clip. After that, the cameraperson sat down.
Then, at three hours, nine minutes, and 18 seconds, the cameraperson could be seen moving to the back. Throughout Trump’s address and the ceremony, Jaishankar was present in the front row and did not shift from his place.
We also saw videos of Trump’s ceremony live-streamed by various news portals and Jaishankar can be seen in them in the front row only.
It is thus clear that viral claims are misleading. A cameraperson was asked to move to the back — not S Jaishankar.
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