Yogi Adityanath seen calling reporter "Chutiya" on "live video"? UP govt says video "seems morphed"
ANI retracts video without explanation
Lucknow: A video of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath went viral across social media platforms wherein the CM is seen abusively lashing out at the cameraman of news agency Asian News International (ANI).
Adityanath had received his COVID vaccine minutes before the video was shot for a customary bite to the news agency.
“I would like to extend my greetings to the country’s scientists,” Adityanath droned on, before twitching at a minor interruption by a person in the room. He then lowered his voice and said, “Kya karte ho chutiyapane ka...” before the video cut off.
The video was soon trending with hashtag #YogiAdityanath on micro-blogging site Twitter. UP’s Additional Chief Secretary of Information Navneet Sehgal, was then quoted by news portal newslaundry.com as calling the video “morphed”.
Somebody must have played with the video,” Sehgal said. “We have uploaded the genuine video. He didn’t actually say it if you watch that.”
Meanwhile, ANI’s Uttar Pradesh bureau tweeted a retraction, stating that the video had been shot live. “Earlier issued live sound byte is retracted,” it said.
The video was then reuploaded wherein the CM is not seen abusing anybody.
When Newslaundry asked Sehgal Isn’t it likely that after Adityanath’s outburst, ANI reshot the video? He was quoted as saying “Only official videos go public, nothing else,” he said.
ANI has, however, not issued any statement in this regard except the retraction tweet without explanation.
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Curbs on movement, assembly remain in force in Kashmir after protests against Khamenei's killing
Srinagar (PTI): Normal life in Kashmir was affected for the fifth consecutive day as partial restrictions on movement of people remained in force as a precautionary measure.
The restrictions were imposed on Monday after spontaneous protests broke out across Kashmir a day earlier against the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israel joint strikes.
Chief minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday held a meeting with civil society representatives and religious leaders as part of efforts to bring the situation back to normalcy.
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After the meeting, Abdullah appealed to people to maintain peace while expressing grief and anger in "mosques, shrines and Imambaras".
The government has shut educational institutions till Saturday, and reduced mobile internet speeds.
"Restrictions on the movement and assembly of the people continued in many parts of Kashmir on Thursday," the officials said.
A large number of police and paramilitary CRPF personnel were deployed across the city to prevent gatherings of protestors, the officials said.
They added that concertina wires and barricades were placed at important intersections leading into the city, while asserting that these were precautionary measures imposed to maintain law and order.
The iconic Ghanta Ghar in the city centre of Lal Chowk here continued to remain a no-go zone after the authorities sealed area with barricades erected all around it on late Sunday night.
The move to seal the Ghanta Ghar came after it witnessed massive protests on Sunday after Khamenei's assassination in the joint air strikes by the US and Israel.
This is the first time since August 2019 -- when Article 370 was revoked -- that protests on such a large scale have taken place in Kashmir.
