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By Shreytama Datta
A video is viral on social media where one can see an elaborately decorated train at a railway station. A green dome with two minarets on its side and golden swans at the bottom can be seen attached to the front of the engine. There is a banner attached to the side which has ‘Urs Mubarrak’ written on it in Urdu.
The video is viral with the claim that a train has been converted into a ‘Muslim Express’ by ‘Jihadis’, and it is running between West Bengal and Hyderabad.
Twitter user @cbpandey29 shared the video clip with the caption that can be translated as: “A train which is going from Hyderabad to West Bengal has been converted into Muslim Express by Jihadis. The guard says that the train cannot go like this, but the Jihadis are adamant that the train will leave the station like this”. (Archive)
https://twitter.com/BJP4India/status/1687508927037186048?t=jBXF32PhUIXPcVvhG6M6Ag&s=19
Suresh Chavhanke, the editor-in-chief of propaganda outlet Sudarshan News, tweeted the clip questioning how the Railway ministry could tolerate it. (Archive)
https://twitter.com/SureshChavhanke/status/1688394247526047745?t=HVKvw_8Rb3ExD7D83Ree0g&s=19
Right Wing influencer Mr Sinha (@MrSinha_), who shares misinformation on a regular basis, tweeted the video tagging Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
https://twitter.com/MrSinha_/status/1688405043329064960?t=T-eMkCnQWBo59cfeIQuQrw&s=19
Similar claims have been made by several social media users across Twitter and Facebook.
Alt News received several requests on its WhatsApp helpline to verify the video.
Fact Check
First, we broke down the video into multiple key-frames and ran a reverse image search. This led us to a video posted by YouTube channel @gohash22 which shows the train engine with the same number 13418 WDG 3A at the 0:09 second-mark. The video was uploaded on August 2, 2023.
The video talks about the 46th Urs-e-Quadeer to be held at Halkatta Shareef near Wadi Junction at Karnataka. Urs is a festival celebrated by the Muslim community on the occasion of the death anniversary of Sufi saints. Devotees from faraway places arrive at their ‘dargah’ to celebrate the occasion. A board attached to the front of the train engine has “46th Urs-e-Quadeer’ written on it (visible in the above screenshot).
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