Rahul Gandhi Should Apologize The Nation People For Passing Off Congress Functionaries As Ordinary Ladakhis

Mumbai: Congress leader and Wayanad MP had posted a video on his official Twitter handle that China has occupied substantial portion of land from India.

The video included a number of people claiming that China has occupied and taken away substantial land from India in Ladakh region.

Gandhi said that those making these claims were Ladakhis.

Ladakhis say:
China took our land.

PM says:
Nobody took our land.

Obviously, someone is lying. pic.twitter.com/kWNQQhjlY7

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 3, 2020

TRUTH
At least five people in the video that Gandhi tried to pass off as ordinary Ladakhis had either links to Congress or were its functionaries.

VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGY
Since the video carried everyone’s name who gave away a byte, we used those as keywords on Google search engine and found the following results.

Dorjay Gyalston
He is working president of District Youth Congress’ Leh unit. In a post by Facebook group District Congress Leh, we found him addressed as one.

Dr Ishey Namgyal
In an article dated November 2, 2018 frm Reach Ladakh, Bulletin we found that Congress appointed Dr. Ishey Namgyal as the President of Ladakh municipal committee.

Namgyal Durbuk
Journalist Barkha Dutt, in a video-tweet report on Ladakh referred to him as an ex Congress Councillor

“Where our Horses used to go & Pasture, we now see the Chinese.”- Namgyal Durbuk is an ex Congress Councillor from Congress but says he speaks as a local from the Border Villages of Durbuk-Shyok areas. “We stand with the PM, Please Act” – My Ladakh report pic.twitter.com/zkqdB21pPd

— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) June 22, 2020

Sachin Merupa
As per his Twitter bio, he is NSUI (Congress’ student wing) general secretary from Himachal Pradesh.

Tundup Nubu
As per bio on his Facebook profile, he is General Secretary at Indian Youth Congress UT Ladakh

VERDICT
TOI Fact Check has found that at least five men featuring in a video posted by Rahul Gandhi to attack PM Modi over India-China faceoff at LAC, were Congress functionaries, and not ordinary Ladakhis.

Rahul Gandhi used that video to insinuate that China had intruded and taken away India’s land and Modi is lying to countrymen about it.