{"id":1455541,"date":"2022-04-27T13:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455541"},"modified":"2022-04-27T13:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:29:48","slug":"fact-check-did-indias-foreign-minister-offer-to-make-sri-lanka-a-state-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-indias-foreign-minister-offer-to-make-sri-lanka-a-state-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did India\u2019s Foreign Minister Offer To Make Sri Lanka \u2018A State Of India\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-indias-foreign-minister-offer-to-make-sri-lanka-a-state-of-india%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455541&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>An image <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ruwantha.premasiri\/posts\/5032124896903881\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> allegedly shows a tweet from Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar offering to make Sri Lanka a part of India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Verdict: False<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The screen grab is digitally fabricated. The High Commission of India confirmed in a tweet that Jaishankar did not make such a statement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Fact Check:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sri Lanka is currently in the midst of an economic crisis caused by a large drop in reserves, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/sri-lanka-says-world-bank-agrees-provide-600-million-financial-aid-2022-04-26\/\"><span>Reuters<\/span><\/a><span>. The World Bank has approved $600 million in financial assistance to aid the country\u2019s economic recovery, the outlet reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Facebook image claims to show a screen grab of a tweet from Jaishankar offering to help Sri Lanka by giving it the chance to become a part of India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf the people of Sri Lanka are agreeable, India is willing to proclaim that Sri Lanka becomes a State of India,\u201d the purported tweet reads. \u201cAs a result, India will be able to solve the gas, fuel, milk food, fertilizer and many other essential goods problems that the country is facing.\u201d The tweet also promised the country would \u201clook after all the future issues\u201d of the country, calling the offer a \u201chand of survival.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The tweet is digitally fabricated. No such post can be found on Jaishankar\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=(from%3ADrSJaishankar)%20sri%20lanka%20becomes%20a%20state%20of%20india&#038;src=typed_query&#038;f=top\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><span> account, or <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220420105744\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrSJaishankar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archived<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220413094856\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrSJaishankar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">versions<\/a> of it. There are also no credible <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Jaishankar+sri+lanka+indian+state&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=nws&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwjJ0a2_krL3AhXjUt8KHfPwCuwQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&#038;biw=1536&#038;bih=754&#038;dpr=1.25\"><span>news reports<\/span><\/a><span> about the minister, or India, making such an offer. <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/15\/fact-check-indian-politician-pakistan-1-billion\/\">(RELATED: Did Indian Politician Rahul Gandhi Say That Pakistan Can Be \u2018bought\u2019 For Less Than $1 Billion?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hcicolombo.gov.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">High Commission of India<\/a> in Colombo, Sri Lanka recently addressed the alleged statement in a tweet from its verified account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have seen a morphed image purported to be from the twitter handle of External Affairs Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrSJaishankar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DrSJaishankar<\/a>. This is completely fake and fabricated. We strongly deny its malicious contents. Such mischievous attempts by desperate parties will never succeed in affecting (1\/2)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 India in Sri Lanka (@IndiainSL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndiainSL\/status\/1516762719663230976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is completely fake and fabricated,\u201d the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndiainSL\/status\/1516762721676500997\"><span>tweet<\/span><\/a><span> reads in part. \u201cSuch mischievous attempts by desperate parties will never succeed in affecting the close, friendly and age-old ties between #India and #SriLanka.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a tweet from Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar offering to make Sri Lanka a part of India.\u00a0Verdict: False The screen grab is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":1480694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}