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      Fake News From Rahul Gandhi's Wayanad Rally Keeps Social Media Abuzz

      Several posts claiming Pakistani flags were waved in the pre-nomination rally of Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad go viral. However these posts were falsely calling the IUML banners as Pak flags

      By - Sumit Usha |
      Published -  5 April 2019 7:01 PM IST
    • Boomlive
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      The fake news brigade had a field day on Thursday as social media remained abuzz with all kinds of misinformation centered mainly around Kerala's Wayanad district, from where the president of Indian National Congress party, Rahul Gandhi, filed his election nomination on April 4, 2019.

      All the viral claims targeting Rahul Gandhi and Congress party have a communal angle to them.'The posts claim Pakistani flags were waved at Rahul Gandhi's pre-nomination rally in Wayanad and accused Congress of converting India into an Islamic state.

      rahul gandhi wayanad
      Shared on Facebook page India Against Urban Naxals
      Shared on Facebook page BJP Social Media & I.T. Cell, the caption with the post reads: This is not from Pakistan, this is Congress office in Kerala. See the true colors of Congress



      rahul gandhi wayanad
      Another post on Facebook claiming Congress is bent on converting India into an Islamic nation

      Archived versions of the above posts can be accessed here, here, here and here.

      BOOM fact checked the claims and found all of them to be fake.

      Fact check

      IUML Banners At Rahul Gandhi's Wayanad Rally Falsely Claimed To Be Pak Flags

      The flags in all the images in the viral posts, claimed to be Pakistani flags, are actually the party flag of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).

      IUML is a political party in Kerala recognised by the Election Commission of India, and is an ally of the Congress party among others in the United Democratic Front.

      Indian Union Muslim League flag
      IUML party flag
      Pakistani flag
      Flag of Pakistan

      One can clearly see that there are visible differences between the flags of Pakistan and IUML party. Not only does the Pakistani flag has a white stripe at the left hand, the crescent and star on it are also positioned differently than the IUML flag.

      However, time and again attempts have been made to pass off IUML flags at Congress rallies in Kerala as Pakistani flags.

      claim counter
      Collage of viral posts

      The flags shown in all the viral posts are the IUML banners. Waving the green banner with an imprint of crescent and moon is a regular affair at IUML as well as Congress rallies in Kerala.

      Several videos of the pre-nomination rally were also shared with captions of Pakistani/Islamic flags being waved by Congress supporters. Twitterati were on a roll sharing videos from Wayanad claiming there were more 'Pakistani flags' in the rally compared to the Indian tricolor.







      The flags raised at Congress' Wayanad rally - uniformly green with a crescent and moon imprint at the corner - is quite different from the national flag of Pakistan.

      IUML Office Passed Off As Congress Office In Kerala

      Viral from several Facebook pages
      Another post viral on Facebook

      The caption with this viral post claims that it is the Congress' party office in Kerala. However, when BOOM inspected the image minutely, at least two evidences were spotted which pointed out that it was an IUML office and not Congress'.

      iuml office
      Evidences from the image

      The image on the top left corner of the picture - that of a ladder - depicts the party symbol of the Indian Union Muslim League.

      Also, the poster below the party symbol is that of Syed Muhhamedali Shihab Thangal. Shihab Thangal, president of the Kerala State Committee of the IUML, passed away in 2009.

      Tags

      AmethielectionsFakefeaturedHinduiumlKeralaMuslimPakistanRahul GandhiviralwayanadPriyanka Gandhi VadraIslamBJPIndian National Congress (INC)
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      Claim :   Pakistani flags waved at Rahul Gandhi's Wayanad campaign
      Claimed By :  Social media pages
      Fact Check :  FALSE
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