Viral Photograph of AAP Gujarat Chief Gopal Italia Behind Bars is ‘Fake’
GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 14th Oct. On social media, a photo of AAP Gujarat chief Gopal Italia has gone viral. The politician can be seen behind bars, and the post’s many sharers believe it was taken on Thursday, when Italia was arrested outside the National Commission of Women in Delhi and detained for more than three hours.
A slew of Gopal Italia supporters and official accounts, including AAP MLAs Naresh Balyan and Sanjay Singh, have shared the image. Balyan tweeted several revolutionary slogans, one of which was popularized by Ram Prasad Bismil in the fight against the British Raj.
https://twitter.com/AAPNareshBalyan/status/1580483400695091200?s=20&t=2WjoCIKIGDq2EOj_du_low
AAP’s Sanjay Singh wrote, “Why does the BJP hate Gujaratis? As @Gopal_Italia started gaining favour among the people, the BJP arrested him because they’re afraid of losing elections. Gujaratis will take revenge for this injustice.”
The post has received over 2,500 likes and has been shared over 1,000 times.
https://twitter.com/SanjayAzadSln/status/1580485798247682048?s=20&t=D8ihIYTw6jHCAF4DaiNPig
They were far from the only ones who posted angry, heated captions to the photo. The official AAP Gujarat Twitter account, as well as another MLA, Kuldeep Kumar, an AAP Delhi spokesperson, entered the fray, according to his Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/KuldeepKumarAAP/status/1580500604669288448?s=20&t=AhtT-WV6GR3ZBQh2cFQssg
The responses were overwhelmingly supportive of the “wronged” AAP leader, with the photograph becoming emblematic of the alleged injustice. The hashtag #ISupportGopalItalia has been trending on Twitter.
The image was even used on the website of the widely read Gujarati newspaper Divya Bhaskar.
While the detention occurred on Thursday, the photograph being circulated is from May of this year, when Italia was actually in prison.
Gopal Italia has dominated the news cycle this week, allegedly calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “neech person” and causing a stir by making a statement telling Hindu women not to visit temples.
The AAP government believes the BJP is plotting something.
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