A video is extensively circulated on social media claiming that India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru accepting the ‘Citizenship of London’ in 1956.
The video is shared with a caption: How many of you know that Nehru took Citizenship of London in 1956 & took oath to be true to the Queen of England?
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post, and found it to be Misleading.
In the video, we noticed the logo of British Pathé on the top right corner. Scanning their YouTube page, we found the same video — dated April 13, 2014 — uploaded with a title: London Honours Two Great Premiers (1956).
According to the video description, Prime Minister Nehru of India and Prime Minister Holland of New Zealand receiving the ‘freedom of the City of London’ at the Guildhall.
We found archived videos on the website of Associated Press (AP Archive). According to the description, the videos were dated July 4, 1956.
We also found the newspaper archive of Indian Express, dated July 4, 1956, and a BBC report published on July 3, 1956, about the same.
According to the BBC report, ‘Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Sir Sidney Holland of New Zealand were honoured in a ceremony at the Guildhall in the British capital. The two Commonwealth leaders signed the roll of fame and were given the documents of the Freedom, contained in ornamental caskets, in a service presided over by the Principal Clerk to the Chamberlain’.
Hence, it is clear that the video is being shared with a misleading claim.
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