New Delhi: A video of a procession is being circulated on social media platforms with the claim that Indians in Spain are celebrating the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.
The video is being circulated on both Facebook and Twitter and shows Indians wearing sarees and kurta pajamas during the procession. The caption, in Hindi, reads: “Indians in Spain take out a procession in celebration of the Ram Mandir being built and bang dhols.”
It has been shared multiple times on Twitter. One of the clips on the micro blogging site has been viewed over 32,000 times with more than 5,000 likes and 1,400 retweets.
https://twitter.com/KeshariPunam/status/1288113953260806147?s=20
The video has also been circulated via WhatsApp.
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Fact check
ThePrint’s fake news slayer has found that the video being shared widely now is from 2018 and was uploaded on YouTube on 16 October that year. They are a dance group that had gone on an international tour to Spain in 2018.
This is much before the Supreme Court’s November 2019 judgment for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The top court had settled the decades-long Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute by ordering the construction of the Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya and an allied land elsewhere for the construction of the mosque.
The bhoomi pujan (laying of the foundation stone) of the temple will be held on 5 August and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in attendance. The temple trust has set a deadline of 2024 for its completion.
In collaboration with SM Hoaxslayer.
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