A few pictures are doing rounds on social media with a claim that a few people from All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) were burning saffron flags in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh.
“ये प्रतापगढ़ के AIMIM जिलाध्यक्ष #मो०_सलीम_अंसारी हैं, जो कि खुलेआम भगवा झंडे को जला रहे हैं,
ऐसे ही लोग दंगे की वजह बनते हैं।
कल को कोई भगवा सरफिरा इसे ठोक दे तो मत कहना हमें भारत डर लगता है 😡😡👇
ये बचना नहीं चाइए दोस्तो” the caption read in Hindi.

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FACT CHCEK

NewsMobile fact-checked the above post and found the claim to be false.
The first thing we noticed that ‘Nepal Murdabad’ written on a white paper and pasted on the billboard.

We then ran a Reverse Image Search along with the keywords like ‘ Nepal’, ‘flag burn’, ‘ AIMIM’ and found that they were burning the flag of Nepal.
We came across a tweet by Pratapgarh Police dated June 17. The tweet, which was a reply to a similar post stated that Nepal’s flag was burnt by the members of the AIMIM party in protest after Nepal’s parliament passed the amendment to include Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura in their new political map.

उक्त प्रकरण में प्रदर्शित झण्डा नेपाल देश का है, नेपाल देश की संसद द्वारा कथित रूप से भारतीय क्षेत्र को नेपाली क्षेत्र बताये जाने के विरोध में एआईएमआईएम पार्टी प्रतापगढ़ के सदस्यों द्वारा नेपाल का झण्डा जलाया गया है। pic.twitter.com/naSVmIPlmp

— PRATAPGARH POLICE (@pratapgarhpol) June 17, 2020

They also posted a clarification video by one of the men who were burning the flag.

उक्त प्रकरण में झण्डा नेपाल देश का है, नेपाल देश की संसद द्वारा कथित रूप से भारतीय क्षेत्र को नेपाली क्षेत्र बताये जाने के विरोध में एआईएमआईएम पार्टी प्रतापगढ़ के सदस्यों द्वारा नेपाल का झण्डा जलाया गया है। pic.twitter.com/kc0EGVfYpK

— PRATAPGARH POLICE (@pratapgarhpol) June 16, 2020

We then ran keyword search and found several videos on the same incident on YouTube.


Hence, from the above information, we can conclude that the picture in question is being shared with a false narrative and are misleading.

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