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India Today found that fans were singing the AR Rahman classic "Maa Tujhe Salaam" in the original video.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is doctored. The audio is from a rally in Himachal Pradesh. In the original video, people were singing the AR Rahman classic “Maa Tujhe Salaam”.
During the October 14 India-Pakistan World Cup match at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Pakistani cricket player Muhammad Rizwan was taunted with “Jai Shri Ram” slogans while walking into the dressing room. This video quickly went viral on social media, leading to condemnation from politicians, including DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin and Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale.
Now, a different video is being widely shared on social media, in which “Jab mulle kate jayenge, Ram-Ram chillayenge”, which translates to “When Muslims will be slaughtered, they will cry Ram-Ram”, can be heard being chanted at the same stadium. Allegedly, this took place during the same match.
India Today found that the video in question is doctored. The anti-Muslim slogans used in the video were taken from an old rally held in Himachal Pradesh.
Our Probe
Several people on social media expressed doubts about the video's authenticity, suggesting it was edited. A Twitter account "@Delhiite_" shared the video alleging that the audio used in it was from a rally in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu.
With the help of a keyword search, we identified the video from which the anti-Muslim slogan was taken. This two-minute, 26-second video shared on Twitter on June 26 showed a lengthy rally with people holding placards and saffron flags. The audio used in the viral video was extracted from the first few seconds of this clip.
We also found footage of this protest in a report by the New Indian Express, uploaded to its YouTube channel on June 26. According to the report, this demonstration was part of a series of protests organised across the state of Himachal Pradesh in response to the murder of a Dalit youth by a Muslim man.
The story behind the original video
With a keyword search on YouTube, we found the original version of the stadium video in question. This 1-minute, 32-second video, uploaded on October 14 to the YouTube channel “Beyond the Boundary” featured the AR Rahman classic “Maa Tujhe Salaam | Vande Maataram” playing at the stadium, with the crowd singing along. The viral clip was extracted from two different segments of this video.
According to the video’s title, it captured fans singing the Rahman song after India's victory over Pakistan in the World Cup at the Narendra Modi Stadium. However, we could not independently verify the date of this video. The same clip also appeared in an 11-minute video of the match uploaded by the “Beyond the Boundary” channel on October 16.
Comparisons between the viral video and the YouTube video can be seen below.
It is, therefore, clear that the video in question is doctored and does not actually show anti-Muslim slogans being chanted during the India-Pakistan match at the Narendra Modi Stadium.
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