A video of Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar is going viral on social media. Sharing the video, users are claiming that Manohar Lal Khattar has insulted the martyr Mangal Pandey, who had participated in the 1857 revolution.
In this viral video, Manohar Lal Khattar can be heard saying- “ We know that the trumpet of our country’s independence was sounded in 1857 and the youth of our country unitedly decided to do an underground revolution against the British. Made that we will raise the flag against the British on 10th May 1857 and we will not breathe peacefully till this country is not free. This decision was taken by the youth power of our country. Do you know an incident or not? One of our soldiers knew that there was to be a revolution on 10th May 1857. Messages have been sent everywhere. But that young soldier Mangal Pandey could not stop his enthusiasm and on 29 April, 11 days before 10 May, he opened fire on some Britishers. The British came to know, the British became alert as soon as they came to know, and even before our revolution which was to start on 10th May, explosions started happening everywhere. That revolution went on for 2 years, but we could not succeed in the revolution. We could not bring freedom in that revolution. Maybe the result could be anything later, but today many people say that if Mangal Pandey had not been fired 11 days ago and waited for 10th May, it would have exploded on that day. So due to this explosion, the British would have had to run away in 1857 itself, 90 years before the country would have got independence. {English Translation}
Many social media users are sharing this statement of Khattar.
Fact Check:
To fact-check the viral video, DFRAC team reverse searched some of the frames of the video. We found a video uploaded by ‘ Punjab Kesari Haryana ‘ on 11 Aug 2019. Khattar’s viral speech can be heard in this video.
Conclusion:
From the DFRAC fact check, it is clear that the viral video of CM Khattar is not 3 years old. Hence, the claim of social media users is misleading.
Claim- Manohar Lal Khattar insulted Mangal Pandey
Claimant- Social media users
Fact Check – Misleading
