

Watch: Bollywood actor lookalikes gather in support of Shah Rukh Khan, Aryan Khan.Kerala’s Mullaperiyar dam is a ‘ticking time bomb waiting to explode’.Kashmiri students allegedly attacked in Punjab college after India-Pakistan T20 match.Hard to believe what we’ve seen: Reactions to Pakistan’s 10-wicket win over India at T20 World Cup.T20 World Cup: Mohammed Shami receives online abuse after India’s loss to Pakistan.Watch: Viktor Axelsen plays an epic shot on his way to defeating Kento Momota in Denmark Open final.Several others further suggested that Indian national flag was replaced when, in fact, the flagstaff was empty. The widespread claim that Khalistan flag was hoisted by protesters during the tractor rally in Delhi is false. The screenshot below is from Republic Day parade held last year. Sikh flags are also featured on the Punjab tableau during Republic Day parades. Journalist Hartosh Singh Bal also tweeted that the flags unfurled were Sikh religious flags, not Khalistan flag.ītw the right wing has the effrontery to raise this on a day the ram mandir is the UP govt’s r-day float. They want the rulers of the nation to not take them for granted.” The hoisting of the Sikh flag means that the people of the nation want to assert their identity as well.

In this case, the tricolour, the flag of India, continues to be hoisted. He further added, “When a flag is hoisted as a symbol of regime change, the previous flag is brought down and the new flag is unfurled. They are not Khalistan flags,” said Amandeep Sandhu, author of Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines. “Whether yellow or saffron, triangular flags with the Khanda – two swords – are Sikh flags. The flags hoisted by the protesting farmers are the Nishan Sahib or Sikh religious flags. The flag hoisted by protesters is not the Khalistan flag (Express vide by Praveen Khanna) /yeCxPNjLvyįlags were also put up on domes from the fort.Ģ. The police is now climbing to remove the flag that was hoisted by the protesters. Red Fort is fully occupied by protestors now. The Indian flag can be spotted in several pictures. #WATCH A protestor hoists a flag from the ramparts of the Red Fort in Delhi #FarmLaws #RepublicDay /Mn6oeGLrxJ In the video below, the tricolour can be seen atop Lahore gate (entrance to the Red Fort) as the protestor climbs the empty flagpost. There are several videos that confirm the same. They neither took down the Indian flag nor replaced it with a flag of Khalistan. Protesters hoisted a flag from an empty pole mast. Indian flag was not replaced or taken down This fact-check has been divided into two sections that debunk both claims separately.ġ. Other pro-BJP propaganda handles made similar tweets. Right-wing propaganda website OpIndia also wrote in an article that protesters unfurled Khalistan flag from the Red Fort. Among those who amplified the claim were BJP Delhi spokesperson Harish Khurana, parliamentary secretary of Varun Gandhi, Ishita Yadav, and BJP supporters Divya Kumar Soti, Vikrant Kumar, Sumit Kadel, Sumit Kadel, Sumeet Thakkar, Anurag Dixit and Shefali Vaidya. That the flag unfurled from the mast pole was the Khalistan flag is massively viral on social media. Was this protest always about undermining our State? | #RDaySpiritShamed /Bfp1psRsAJ Our Tricolour replaced at iconic flagpole at #RedFort. But he added that the one hoisted was a flag of farmers’ union or religious sect.ĭisquieting assault on our most visible national symbol. “What point are these farmers trying to make by replacing the tricolour with their religious flag?” questioned Sonam Mahajan.Įditor-in-chief of Times Now Rahul Shivshankar also claimed that the tricolour was replaced. Indian Flag Removed Flag of Khalistan is waving on Red Fort. They entered the iconic Red Fort and hoisted flags from some domes and from a flagstaff, on the ramparts of the fort, used to unfurl the tricolour on Independence Day.ġ) the protestors took down the Indian national flag, andĢ) replaced the tricolour with the Khalistan flag. Several protesting groups, however, veered off the course and were met with police lathicharge and tear gas shells. It was decided that the protesters will enter Delhi but remain in areas near the border from the three entry points.

As part of the protests against the Centre’s farm bills, farmers’ unions and the Delhi police had chalked out agreed-upon circular routes from Ghazipur, Singhu and Tikri borders for the Republic Day tractor parades.
