'That’s not us': RSS steps in to deny Nepal rescue act tweet

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'That’s not us': RSS steps in to deny Nepal rescue act tweet

• Abhishek Saha,Hindustan Times, New Delhi
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• Updated: Apr 27, 2015 13:59 IST

An earthquake measuring 7.5 magnitude struck 80 km (50 miles) east of Pokhara in Nepal. (Photo credit- @gunaraj on Twitter)

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The news of more than 20,000 RSS workers participating in relief activities in earthquake-ravaged Kathmandu, doing the rounds on social media, is false and an image used is that of RSS volunteers during the Gujarat temblor of 2001.

BJP national executive member ShainaNC tweeted on Sunday: "20000 RSS swayamsevaks goin to Nepal to assist in rescue-relief operations media won't report this @RSSorg @RSS_Org "



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The post was retweeted more than 400 times and went viral. A few hours later, she tweeted about being proud of associated with the RSS, considering how 20,000 of its volunteers were helping people in Nepal.


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Social media users shared the tweets hailing the good work done by the organization considered the ideological mentor of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
But things changed when the RSS tweeted that reports of large numbers of its volunteers working in Nepal were false. It accused the media of reporting wrong facts.

"Media is reporting inflated figures of RSS Swayamsevaks reaching Nepal for rescue work," the RSS tweeted from its official handle.

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t further tweeted that its volunteers would only work with the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, the Nepalese wing of the RSS, only after a proper plan is devised along with the Nepal government.

The tweet said: "RSS Swayamsevaks from Bharat ready to join hands with HSS Nepal after a proper plan is chalked in coordination with Govt of Nepal."

Senior RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale, who is in Nepal to coordinate relief activities with the HSS, told the Economic Times, "There have been conflicting reports that RSS has sent off its people to Nepal for relief work, that is not true. Our volunteers of HSS have started work, but they are Nepalese.”

Journalist Nistula Hebbar, who interviewed Hosabale, tweeted,

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He also says that the Nepal unit of Hindu Swayamsewak Sangh the international wing of the Sangh has already done some relief work

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The 20,000 figure being bandied about is wrong, he added.

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What turned out to be more embarrassing is that the image used in ShainaNC's tweet was found to be that of RSS volunteers standing before a damaged building in the aftermath of the 7.9-magnitude quake in Gujarat in 2001. That earthquake killed nearly 20,000 and injured more than 1.5 lakh.

The image is widely available on the internet, with a copy on theWiki Commons website.

The social media campaign The Truth of Gujarat posted a compilation of the tweets and the Gujarat image on Facebook and Twitter

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"Google has a reverse image search option. And I knew that that is not a Nepal rescue picture. So I put the image that ShainaNC tweeted into the the reverse search, and found it on several pages including the Wikimedia page which I took a screenshot of, juxtaposed it with her tweet," activist Pratik Sinha, who runs The Truth of Gujarat, told Hindustan Times.

'That’s not us': RSS steps in to deny Nepal rescue act tweet

 

[wolfschanzze]

LoL and here comes another #AdarshLiberal with her article,accusing RSS has done no work.

 

[nik141991]

Illiterate sanghis at best , 1 trained NDRF personnel is 100 time better in handling such situation than illiterate sanghis who instead of help want to do drama & photo ops to post it later on Twitter & facebook to gain some sympathy & recognition from gullible audience, its good that modi send NDRF instead of them

 

[wolfschanzze]

Illiterate sanghis at best , 1 trained NDRF personnel is 100 time better in handling such situation than illiterate sanghis who instead of help want to do drama & photo ops to post it later on Twitter & facebook to gain some sympathy & recognition from gullible audience, its good that modi send NDRF instead of them

Moron. Every RSS fellow is trained in Self defence and Disaster management work.What do you know about RSS training?
Do you even know how diverse fields they are trained in?
Not to mention the Experts and Professionals present in their ranks,Who act as Swayamsevaks.
That is why they were Policing India as a Paramilitary force while Indian Army was busy fighting the chinese in 1962 Indo-China war.
Lastly, if they wanted Photo ops like Rahul Baba and Sickulars do,They have a huge history for Photo Ops spanning decades.But, they are first to arrive on the scene and work,Even before Government responds,that is their track record.Never did they ask for photo Ops like you HIFI, SICKULARS, whose sole motives was to appear on Page 9 in Entertainment to act as though you do some other things besides your Coke fuelled parties.
"seva parmo dharm" (( service is the highest duty) is the fountainhead of this Bharateeya Sanskriti, the home of the Ved, which believes that service to mankind is the way to serve the Almighty) was quoted by PM MODI himself, where did you think he got this quote from?
Seriously i ask do you even know how Relief,Aid and Disaster Management/ Mitigation is done?Any Experience?
Do you even know what SEVA is?

Illiterate sanghis at best , 1 trained NDRF personnel is 100 time better in handling such situation than illiterate sanghis who instead of help want to do drama & photo ops to post it later on Twitter & facebook to gain some sympathy & recognition from gullible audience, its good that modi send NDRF instead of them

1 NDRF member is basically a Jawan who is taught basic things about Disaster Management and Mitigation less than 100 hours.
While all RSS swayamsevaks are drilled such lessons right from their childhood into their brains, it doesn't need board room discussions as some need, it becomes their Muscle and Cognitive Memory ingrained in themselves to act with Impulse and Instinct it becomes a routine for them in real life. That is how the Modern Armies train nowadays, Muscle and Tissue Memory.These People were training since 1925 and they know these theories, Their motto "Selfless Service to Motherland".

 

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