Was the national anthem tampered with in Kerala’s Muslim schools? 5 year old video found during investigation

New Delhi: The number of videos being spread on the internet with fake claims is increasing rapidly. Many times the video is edited and posted so clearly that it becomes difficult to differentiate between truth and lie. When such fake videos pass through the social media platforms of millions of people, it sometimes leads to serious consequences. One such video is currently going viral on social media, which is said to be of Muslim schools in Kerala. In the viral video, a group of children is seen holding flags in their hands. Some children are also seen singing a song, in which they are saying Nabi hai, Nabi hai, Nabi hai. The same video is being attributed to the Muslim schools of Kerala and it is being said that these children are tampering with the national anthem of the country by singing Nabi Hai, Nabi Hai, Nabi Hai instead of Jai Hey, Jai Hey, Jai Hey. When the Vigilant team investigated this claim, it was found to be misleading.

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What is the claim with the video?

This video has been posted on X (Twitter) with the handle Sheetal Kumar Nehra and it has been written, ‘In Kerala, Muslims in their schools and educational institutions have changed the national anthem of India to Jai Hai Jai Hai Jai Hai and Nabi Hai Nabi. he/she is a prophet and has done it. Imagine what would have happened if a Hindu school had replaced Jai Hey Jai Hey with Jai Shri Ram Jai Shri Ram Jai Shri Ram in the national anthem. See the tweet-

A similar post has also been made from the handle named Delhi Kumar Singh. While sharing this video, he/she wrote, ‘In Muslim educational institutions in Kerala, the national anthem of India has been changed to Jai Hai Jai Hai Jai Hai, Nabi Hai Nabi Hai Nabi Hai… But this does not pose any threat to the secularism of India to the seculars. Don’t think so.. Imagine if a school had changed Jai Shri Ram instead of Jai Hey in the national anthem…? See post-

Similar claims regarding this video have also been made from many other handles including Priya Mishra, Sachin Pandit and Jitendra Pratap Singh. See his/her tweets-

What is the truth of the video?

To find out the truth of this video viral on social media, the alert team first searched its screen shot with the help of Google Lens. On searching, we found some social media posts, which are about five years old and made the same claim. In these posts, the exact same thing is written along with the video, which is going viral at the moment. Even investigation revealed that this video is old. Click here to see that post

Now for further investigation we searched about it on Google with keywords related to the video. In the search results, we found a YouTube link dated November 21, 2018, in which some people and children were taking out a procession holding flags in their hands exactly like the flags seen in the currently viral video. This Islamic flag is a symbol of Milad-un-Nabi. The title of this video reads, ‘Eid Miladunnabi procession in Kerala’.

Click here to watch that video

Eid Miladunnabi is celebrated as the birthday of Prophet Muhammad of Islam. According to the Islamic calendar, this festival falls on a different day every year. While searching about the song whose video is viral on social media, when we searched the social media, our attention fell on a tweet by BJP Rajya Sabha MP Dr. Radha Mohan Das Aggarwal.

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Radha Mohan Das did this tweet on 21 May 2021 on the same video of senior journalist Amish Devgan of News 18 channel, which is currently viral. This video had gone viral at that time too with the same claim. Although the video posted on Amish Devgan’s handle was later deleted from the original source, Radha Mohan Das’s tweet is still available.

In his/her tweet, Radha Mohan Das has written, ‘This is not the national anthem. The words of the national anthem are not used in this. This is a song composed by copying the tune of the national anthem, in which the Muslim community praises their prophet. If at the time of singing the national anthem, the national anthem is removed and it is sung in its place, then it is wrong. This should be told to you.

In his/her tweet he/she further wrote, ‘In this the Prophet has been described as the sustainer and treasure of the entire world. That is, it is their Ish-bandhana. But whenever there is a provision of singing the national anthem in schools and it is sung instead of the national anthem, then it is an insult to the national symbols and honour. You are such a great journalist, you should investigate this and tell.

he/she further wrote, ‘By the way I am tagging it to @vijayanpinarayi and @CMOKerala @HMOIndia @PMOIndia and requesting them to get full details of it in which school, at what time and whether the national flag is being sung continuously. If found wrong, take strictest action against it. See his/her tweet-

However, concrete information could not be found about which area of ​​Kerala this five-year-old video is from. But, investigation revealed that the video could have been taken during the festival of Eid Miladunnabi.

conclusion

An almost five-year-old video is being viral on social media with the claim that the national anthem has been tampered with in Muslim areas of Kerala, which is misleading. During investigation by the Vigilant team, it was found that this video is from 2019 and has gone viral many times before.