“Sambhal: Wikipedia claims ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans led to violence, uses The Wire’s op-ed to support claim; later removes the link”, Opindia, December 3, 2024:
“Wikipedia, the so-called “encyclopaedia,” has created a dedicated page on the Sambhal violence that took place on 24th November 2024 during the court-ordered survey of Jama Masjid. In its description of the events, Wikipedia claimed that “some people accompanying the court-appointed survey commission at the mosque chanted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ to provoke Muslims,” and that the video of the incident went viral on social media. The claims were attributed to opposition MPs.
The page on Wikipedia read, “While the opposition MPs have made allegations that some people accompanying the court-appointed survey commission at the mosque chanted “Jai Shri Ram” to provoke Muslims, in the presence of senior police and district officials, with a video of the incident going viral.”
Interestingly, Wikipedia initially used an opinion piece written by controversial columnist Apoorvanand Jha for the leftist propaganda outlet ‘The Wire’, which claimed that Muslims were provoked by the ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans. However, the link was later removed, and another link from The Telegraph became the main source of the same claim……..”
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