Since last week, Muslim girls protesting for the right to wear hijab in classrooms in Karnataka, and the ensuing counter-protests organised by Hindutva groups has gripped the news cycle.
It has also inspired an enormous amount of false and misleading claims on the issue in a short amount of time. In just one week, BOOM has done 9 unique fact-checks on such claims linked to the hijab row.
While most of them were aimed at the pro-hijab protestors, there were also a few attacking the saffron-clad protestors.
Here are all the fact-checks we did on the topic:
On February 8 at Karnataka's Shivamogga, protests by Muslim girls for the right to wear hijab was met with fierce counter-protests by students wearing saffron scarves and turbans, resulting in violence and stone-pelting.
A video was circulated that day, showing a group of boys hoist a saffron flag at government college at Shivamogga.
The footage soon went viral with Congress leader DK Shivakumar tweeting about the incident claiming that the national flag was replaced by a saffron flag at an educational institution in Shivamogga.
This claim was further spread by several reporters, and by news channel India Today.
Our investigation showed that there was no national flag at the government college that day. We also contacted the principal of the college, who confirmed to us that the tricolour was not replaced, when the saffron flag was hoisted.
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