Fact Check: Uddhav Thackeray apologized to the Muslim community for his/her involvement in the 1992 riots? Know the truth of this claim

Fact Check News: With the completion of the voting phase for the assembly elections in Maharashtra, now everyone is waiting for the results. In this electoral battle, many fake claims are also being made on social media. In this series, a newspaper cutting related to Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray is going viral. In this paper cutting it was claimed that Uddhav Thackeray held a meeting with Muslim community leaders and apologized to them for his/her involvement in the 1992 riots.

BOOM’s fact check team has found this viral claim to be false. This outlet named Rashtriya Ujala has described the related paper clip as fake.

What’s in a viral newspaper cutting?

The paper cutting viral on social media is allegedly from a newspaper named ‘Rashtriya Ujala’, in which the name of the correspondent is mentioned as ‘Pranav Dogra’. According to the clip, Uddhav Thackeray held a meeting with Muslim board leaders in view of the Maharashtra Assembly elections. Leaders like Sajjad Nomani, Mufti Mohammad Ismail, Asif Sekh were included in this meeting.

During this, Uddhav Thackeray apologized to those leaders and said that ‘it was a mistake to participate in the 1992 riots’. Apart from this, it was also said in the paper clip that leaders like Aditya Thackeray and Sanjay Raut were also present in the meeting.

what is being claimed

It is noteworthy that on 6 December 1992, Babri Masjid was demolished by Kar Sevaks in Ayodhya. After this, nationwide riots started. Its gruesome form was seen in Mumbai. About 900 people were killed in this riot between December 1992 and January 1993.

Apart from this Hindi paper clip, another paper clip in Marathi is also being shared on social media, in which the same claim has been made.

Let us tell you that voting for all 288 assembly seats of Maharashtra has taken place on 20th November, the counting of votes is to be done on 23rd November. State General Secretary of Madhya Pradesh BJP on Hitanand Sharma Posting this news clip, he/she wrote, ‘What happened from what… till yesterday those who were taking the responsibility of saving Mumbai from the 1992 riots. Today Uddhav Thackeray is seen apologizing to the Muslim community. of post archive link,

Former contestant of reality show Bigg Boss on X and associated with the film industry Kamal R Khan and a right wing user Rishi Bagri also made the same claim while sharing this fake clip. boom even earlier Rishi Bagri Have fact checked many misinformation shared by.

Fact Check: Viral paper clip is fake

We searched for meetings between Muslim community leaders and Uddhav Thackeray mentioned in the clip but did not find any credible report that corroborates the viral claim. There was no information related to this meeting even on the social media accounts of these leaders.

We mentioned newspaper in the clip ‘National Light’ Searched about. We did not find any such news related to Uddhav Thackeray on its website. During this time, we found that Rashtriya Ujala has refuted this paper clip on its website and Facebook and called it fake.

Rashtriya Ujla has its Facebook Wrote in the post that there is no connection with any reporter named ‘Pranav Dogra’ mentioned in the clip of his/her newspaper.

After this we contacted Rashtriya Ujala through mail for more information. Giving clarification in this regard to BOOM, Rashtriya Ujala’s publisher Jyoti Narayan said, ‘This false content is being circulated on social media wrongly attributing it to Rashtriya Ujala. As the publisher of Rashtriya Ujala, I clearly say that our publication has no connection with this fabricated news.

he/she further added, ‘We are initiating appropriate legal action against the people and organizations creating or spreading this fake news. Such action is a direct attack on the integrity, credibility and authenticity of our publication. According to Jyoti Narayan, Rashtriya Ujala is a Hindi newspaper published from Noida.

Meanwhile, we found a post related to this claim on the social media of Shiv Sena (UBT). The post refuted a newspaper clip in Marathi making the same claim and described it as fake.

conclusion

boom fact check In the investigation, Uddhav Thackeray’s claim of apologizing to the Muslim community for the 1992 riots has been found to be fake. Such a claim is being made in a cutting of a newspaper viral on social media that Uddhav Thackeray has apologized to the leaders of Muslim community. However, fact check found the claim of viral paper cutting to be fake.

(This story was originally published boom fact checkAnd republished by NBT as part of Shakti Collective.)