A controversial headline by a Hindi TV channel Aaj Taj prompted a Twitter user’s hashtag #NoidaFilmCityExcavation to trend on Twitter across India. The Twitter user cooked up a story claiming that underneath the media offices in Sector 16 of Noida, there exists a huge Hanuman Temple. So, there is a need to excavate the area that now is home to TV channels.
User @RoflGandhi_ posted a series of tweets in Hindi that Sector 16 houses a huge Hanuman Temple several thousand years ago when NOIDA was known as Navoday Nagar.
Here are the tweets:
रोहतक यूनिवर्सिटी में प्रोफेसर बलवान दहिया जी हिंदू अध्यात्म के रिसर्चर हैं। हनुमानजी पर गहरा अध्ययन किया है। उनकी रिसर्च है कि जब हनुमानजी संजीवनी लेकर लौट रहे थे तो उनकी गदा पर लगा एक मनका नीचे गिर गया था। हजारों साल बीत गये। नौवीं सदी में वो मनका एक गरीब कृपाराम को मिला।(1/न)
— Rofl Gandhi 2.0 (@RoflGandhi_) October 17, 2019
The anonymous Twitter user’s tweets soon led to the creation of hashtag #NoidaFilmCityExcavation to trend nationally with even prominent Twitter users using the hashtag to post their quirky tweets.
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Check out the tweet:
#NoidaFilmCityExcavation विवाद @RoflGandhi_ पर भड़की @anjanaomkashyap ?@aajtak के स्टूडियो से खुदाई शुरू करने के सुझाव से तिलमिलाई अंजना! pic.twitter.com/q8PHZmBvUY
— Akash Banerjee (@TheDeshBhakt) October 17, 2019
Will #NoidaFilmCityExcavation require some court proceedings or no? https://t.co/cWMJZw0qt5
— SANJAY HEGDE (@sanjayuvacha) October 17, 2019
International support for #noidafilmcityexcavation has started@RoflGandhi_ tum aage bado, desh tumhare saath hai pic.twitter.com/mhqz7PC2iJ
— Arun Arora (@Arun2981) October 17, 2019
#NoidaFilmCityExcavation On My Way To Noida pic.twitter.com/M3lrTEAnzr
— . (@danger4uu) October 17, 2019
All this started when the programming headline by Aaj Tak, on the day of the conclusion of Supreme Court’s hearing in Ayodhya case read “janmbhoomi hamari, Ram Hamare, Masjid waale kahan se padhare? (The birthplace is ours, Ram belongs to us. From where did these people from mosques arrive?)”.
It was widely condemned by the members of the civil society as they demanded it to be taken down. But Aaj Tak didn’t delete the controversial tweet.
