Fact Check: Viral claim of Ambedkar’s picture on Parliament seats is false
It’s from Karnataka Assembly
Claim: Viral image shows Ambedkar’s picture on all the seats in the Parliament during a protest against Union minister Amit Shah.
Fact: The claim is false. The image is from the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, not the Parliament.
New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah recently ignited controversy with his comment that chanting Dr BR Ambedkar’s name had become a ‘fashion’ for the Opposition. He suggested that if they invoked Lord Ram’s name as often as Ambedkar’s, they would attain heaven. Following this, an image began circulating on social media, claiming that pictures of Ambedkar had been placed on every seat in the Parliament as a form of protest against Shah's remarks.
A Facebook user shared the viral image with a caption, “This is the picture of BR Ambedkar, who was not allowed to sit inside the classroom in the school, who did not find a house in Vadodara. Now he is sitting on every seat in Parliament today.” Similarly, an X user too shared the image and wrote, “Big Breaking: Baba Sahab Ambedkar’s photo on each and every Opposition bench in Rajya Sabha. Jai Bheem.” The image was also circulated with similar claims across multiple social media pages.
An X user shared the image and wrote, “Big Breaking: Baba Sahab Ambedkar's photo on each & every Opposition bench in Rajya Sabha. Jai Bheem." (Archive)
Similar claims can be found here, here and here. (Archive 1, Archive 2, Archive 3)
Fact Check:
NewsMeter found that the claim is false. The image was not taken in the Parliament but in the Karnataka Assembly.
A reverse image search directed us to reports by Hindustan Times, The News Minute and News Tak, published on December 19, featuring similar images. According to these reports, Congress leaders placed photos of Dr BR Ambedkar on benches in the Karnataka Legislative Council on December 19, setting the stage for a stormy session. The move was a protest against Union home minister Amit Shah’s recent comments on Ambedkar, which Congress members claimed insulted the architect of the Indian Constitution.
The official X account of Karnataka Congress also shared the same images, stating that Karnataka Congress MLAs and ministers staged a protest at the State Legislative Assembly to condemn the remarks made by Amit Shah on Babasaheb Ambedkar.
ಬಾಬಾ ಸಾಹೇಬ್ ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರ್ ಅವರನ್ನು ಅಪಮಾನಿಸಿ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಗೃಹ ಸಚಿವ @AmitShah ನೀಡಿರುವ ಹೇಳಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಖಂಡಿಸಿ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಶಾಸಕರು, ಸಚಿವರು ಸುವರ್ಣಸೌಧದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರ್ ಭಾವಚಿತ್ರ ಹಿಡಿದು ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆ ನಡೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆ ಬಳಿಕ ಅಂಬೇಡ್ಕರ್ ಅವರ ಚಿತ್ರವನ್ನು ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಮುಂಭಾಗದ ಟೇಬಲ್ಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಇರಿಸಲಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಸದನದ… pic.twitter.com/chSGgyDnW8
— Karnataka Congress (@INCKarnataka) December 19, 2024
Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah also shared a similar image on his Instagram account. The post stated a protest was staged in the House with Ambedkar’s portrait placed in front of the ruling party members’ seats.
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Therefore, we conclude that the viral claim that Ambedkar’s picture was placed on all Parliament seats is false.
(This story was originally published by newsmeter.in, and republished by english.varthabharati.in as part of the Shakti Collective)
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Over 17,000 people went missing in Delhi in 2024: NCRB
New Delhi (PTI): A total of 23,058 people, comprising 9,482 men and 13,576 women, were reported missing in Delhi in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Of the total, 5,491 were children below the age of 18 — 1,571 boys, 3,920 girls.
The city recorded 17,567 fresh adult missing persons cases in 2024, comprising 7,911 men and 9,656 women.
According to the NCRB data, released on Wednesday, 14,637 men, 18,238 women and six transgender persons were still missing from previous years.
At the latest count, in 2024, Delhi had a total of 55,939 missing persons cases — 24,119 men, 31,814 women and six transgender persons.
In 2024, police traced or collected 28,392 missing persons, including 12,182 men, 16,208 women and two transgender persons.
Only half of the men and half of the women who went missing could be traced.
A total of 27,547 missing persons – 11,937 men, 15,606 women, four transgender persons — were yet to be untraced by the end of the year, the data showed.
The data also revealed that 5,352 children from previous years remained untraced at the beginning of 2024.
The number of still missing boys was 1,621, and the number of missing girls was 3,729. Two transgender children were yet to be found.
After adding the pending cases from previous years, the total number of missing children cases handled in 2024 rose to 10,843.
The police traced or recovered 6,762 missing children — 2,030 boys, 4,732 girls.
The recovery rate stood at 63.6 per cent for boys and 61.9 per cent for girls, while no transgender child was traced.
By the end of 2024, a total of 4,081 children remained untraced, 1,162 of them boys, 2,917 girls, and two transgender children.
