No, These photos of Hindu gods were not burnt during CAA protest.
A video is viral showing a mob burning photos of Hindu gods claiming to be a part of CAA Protest.
The tweets have been retweeted thousands of times.
Dr. Jayasree Nair, Senior Research Scientist Graduated with a Ph.D in Molecular Biology. 17 years in Cancer Research profession, tweeted the video with following text which by now has been retweeted more that 4800 times.
“Shocking! How dare these fools burn the photos of Hindu Gods & Goddesses in the name of CAA protest? What the hell CAA has to do with Hindus? Their agenda is different & politicians of @INCIndia & @cpimspeak are nurturing this. @PMOIndia@rashtrapatibhvn@VPSecretariat@AmitShah”
Shocking! How dare these fools burn the photos of Hindu Gods & Goddesses in the name of CAA protest? What the hell CAA has to do with Hindus? Their agenda is different & politicians of @INCIndia & @cpimspeak are nurturing this. @PMOIndia @rashtrapatibhvn @VPSecretariat @AmitShah pic.twitter.com/odDAvYT34T
— Dr. Jayasree Nair (@jayasreenair1) January 1, 2020
BJP National Spokes Person, Mr. Sambit Patra also quoted the above tweet which has been retweeted more than 8600 times till now
“This video is shocking …how can any protest have a right to defile the tenets of Hinduism ..who gives them the right to burn the pictures of Hindu Gods & Goddesses ..why should any protest be an Anti-Hindu protest?? Is this is what the Congress & Communists promote?? #Shame“
This video is shocking …how can any protest have a right to defile the tenets of Hinduism ..who gives them the right to burn the pictures of Hindu Gods & Goddesses ..why should any protest be an Anti-Hindu protest??
Is this is what the Congress & Communists promote??#Shame https://t.co/9rn2gIwQ9T— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) January 2, 2020
Truth
The video is not doctored, clipped though, but is not from CAA protests. The video is more than a year old. This was done by Ambedkar supporters
The following post with same video but a longer one, was posted a year ago
Following is the screenshot comparison of the videos, Now and then,
Viral Now
Posted more than a year ago
Following tweet with same video – 28th Aug 2018
A Vile group of Ambedkarites beats posters of Hindu god/goddesses with shoes,tears the posters &then finally burns them, amid chants of Long live Ambedkar& chanting deaths to manuwadi RSS/BJP/Hindu dharma.
In guise of social justice,this is nothing but maleovalence&hate
part1 pic.twitter.com/k98wMQuzwB— うちはイタチ (@DilHinDilMein) August 27, 2018
Above truth Source: BoomLive
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