FACT CHECK: Man passed off as ‘bhakt’ for waving Indian flag at Capitol Hill found to be Shashi Tharoor fan
FACT CHECK: Man passed off as ‘bhakt’ for waving Indian flag at Capitol Hill found to be Shashi Tharoor fan
Times Fact Check | Updated: Jan 8, 2021, 20:46 IST
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One of the men who waved Indian flag at the Capitol Hill siege by pro-Trump mob on Wednesday, has been passed off as bhakt (a pejorative term used by anti-BJP people to describe those who support Prime Minister Narendra Modi) by a section of social media users.
A Twitter handle by the name of ‘Hindutva Watch’ put out three images, two of which showed the same guy with Indian flag apparently posing outside Capitol Hill, and the third image showed a man waving both the saffron flag and the US flag.