As the elections are nearing, any news is making towards headlines or causing controversy, recently, a short video of Badruddin Ajmal is going viral on social media in which the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief is purportedly saying that they will turn India into an Islamic nation and no Hindu will be left here if they come to power. AIUDF is part of the Congress-led UPA alliance for the upcoming elections in Assam.
Assam is also one of the five states in which elections are going to be held. In Assam, the AIUDF is going to contest elections by joining the Congress-led UPA coalition government. Several Twitter and Facebook users have posted the 36-second clip where Ajmal is heard saying in Bengali, “The Mughals have ruled this country for 800 years. This country will turn into an Islamic state. Inshallah, UPA and our grand alliance will rule one day and then your party AIUDF, the lock and key symbol, will have a share in it not a single Hindu would have lived in India, would have converted everyone to Muslim”
Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that the viral clip is edited. Ajmal actually said Mughals ruled India for 800 years but never wanted to make it an Islamic nation. Had they wanted, they could have converted every Hindu in India. Ajmal has given controversial statements earlier too. It was found that the 36-second viral clip has several cuts in between Ajmal’s speech. With the help of InVID and reverse image search, we found the longer version of the speech on YouTube. A YouTube channel called “SANIDUL VLOGS” posted a 21-minute video of Ajmal’s speech on April 17, 2019. The title says that this was Ajmal’s speech at Barpeta during the Lok Sabha election campaign. At 5.45 minutes into the speech, Ajmal speaks about the Mughal rule in India. In this uncut version of the speech, he is heard saying, “You know Mughals ruled India for 800 years but never thought of making this country an Islamic nation. If they would have thought so, in 800 years, not a single Hindu would have lived here; everyone would have converted. Did it happen? British ruled for 200 years and they also never dared to make India a Christian country.”
Ajmal during his speech targeted the PM and a known minister from Assam, he claimed that eversince Independence all the communities have lived peacefully on this very land and Congress never thought of splitting up and as Modi says he will make India a Hindu country, he must not even “dream” of such a silly thing. Thus, the clip going viral is a ‘doctored’ video and Ajmal didn’t make any such comments.
