The students and faculty members of Glocal University who were interviewed by India Fake News confirmed that the chants they heard were “Zaid Sir Zindabad” and “Monish Sir Zindabad.”
A video allegedly showing students of Glocal University in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, shouting “Pakistan Zindabad” has gone popular on social media.
It was reported that B-Pharma and D-Pharma students from the institution had yelled “Pakistan Zindabad” in a moving bus, and this footage of it was broadcast as news by numerous mainstream media outlets, including Aaj Tak, ABP News, Republic Bharat, and Times Now Navbharat.
According to India’s fake news, the media outlets misrepresented the situation. According to numerous Glocal University students and one of their professors who were aboard the bus at the time of the chanting, the words “Zaid Sir Zindabad” and “Monish Sir Zindabad” were being shouted.
With the headline “#BreakingNow: Pakistan Zindabad chants raised in Saharanpur, Glocal University students raise slogans,” Times Now Navbharat posted the video as breaking news.
#BreakingNow: सहारनपुर में लगे पाकिस्तान जिंदाबाद के नारे, ग्लोकल यूनिवर्सिटी के छात्रों ने नारे लगाए@AnchorAnurag #Saharanpur #UttarPradesh pic.twitter.com/sioYvPI3f8
— Times Now Navbharat (@TNNavbharat) February 5, 2023
Media source with a conservative bias Students at Glocal University, Saharanpur chant “Pakistan Zindabad” in the video, according to the caption in The New Indian.
Saharanpur’s Glocal University students raise slogans of Pakistan Zindabad pic.twitter.com/fgwJbuVIBS
— The New Indian (@TheNewIndian_in) February 5, 2023
The same video with the identical claim was also published by ABP News. Zee News Hindi also reported this, with the additional detail that two students have been charged and that authorities are still trying to track down the others involved. The report went on to say,
“There is fanatical thinking in society; people who, despite calling India home, refuse to acknowledge the country as their own. These are the types of people who have maintained Pakistan in their hearts despite enjoying all the country has to offer. The romantic idea of Ghazwa-e-Hind attracts them, and as a result, they have trouble identifying when they begin engaging in anti-national activities.
“Amar Ujala, Dainik Bhaskar, Aaj Tak, Republic Bharat, Patrika, ETV Bharat, and UP Tak are just some of the other media that have reported on this footage and the claim of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ being chanted. Several social media users, including the right-wing Twitter account Megh Updates, the journalist Himanshu Mishra, the entrepreneur Saurabh Singh, and others, attacked the Muslim community on the basis of the false assertion that the video contained ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans.
UP: FIR has been registered against 'unknown students' including Mohammad Soban Ahmed and Mohammad Shaban after a video of group of students shouting 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans went viral.
— Megh Updates 🚨™ (@MeghUpdates) February 6, 2023
They reportedly are D Pharma students of Haji Iqbal's Glocal University in Saharanpur. pic.twitter.com/JukSYydgvb
When this video went viral, authorities investigated and ultimately filed a report under section 153 (b)/505 (2) against two students involved in the incident. There have been claims that both students have been expelled from Glocal University.
Fact-Check
Listening to the viral video’s audio in detail, India Fake News was able to discern the chants being chanted. To better hear what was being highlighted, we removed background noise, slowed it down, and listened. Three primary chants were heard, which have been misreported as “Pakistan Zindabad”: “Zaid Sir Zindabad” (Long Live Zaid Sir), “Monish Sir Zindabad” (Long Live Monish Sir), and “May Monish Sir Be Immortal” (Zaid Sir Amar Rahein). You can listen to the slowed-down and audio-only versions of the video down below.
Boom contacted the two students named in the FIR, Mohammad Soban Ahmed and Mohammad Shaban. On February 3, 2023, both kids denied that they had chanted “Pakistan Zindabad” and instead claimed that they had called out the names of their professors, Zaid and Monis. The sage Shaban remarked,
We had a programme at JV Jain College in Saharanpur that we were planning to attend. In addition to ourselves, Zaid and Monish sirs were present. To paraphrase, “We were merely shouting their slogans.” We called three other kids, Aslam, Sameer, and Shubham, who were on the bus at the time of the shooting, to verify this.
Aslam told Boom that people were chanting instead, “Zaid Sir Zindabad” and “Monish Sir Zindabad.” A jovial Sameer reported to India’s false news that the students’ chants of “Zaid Sir Zindabad,” “Zaid Sir Zindabad,” “Monish Sir Zindabad,” and “Long Live Monish Sir” on the bus were all in good humour.
A D-Pharma student named Shubham who was aboard the bus confirmed to india fake news that passengers chanted “Zaid Sir Zindabad,” “Zaid Sir Zindabad,” “Monish Sir Zindabad,” and “Monish Sir Amar Rahe.” He mentioned that Zaid and Monish are teachers at Glocal University’s pharmacy school.
Zaid, a professor in the School of Pharmacy at Glocal University, confirmed that he, too, was on the bus. Pharmacy students were on their way to JV Jain College in Saharanpur, he added, contradicting the assertions made by the viral video of pro-Pakistani sloganeering. The kids were jokingly screaming his name because of how well he gets along with them.
“On the bus, the students yelled “Zaid Sir Zindabad,” “Monish Sir Zindabad,” and “Monish Sir Amar Rahein,” he told India’s fabricated news. We reached out to Saharanpur SSP Vipin Tada, who confirmed to us that a FIR had been filed on this topic but that no one has been apprehended or the video investigated at this time. The CO of Behat also told us that they had filed a report about the incident and were looking into the footage at the moment.
