NB Twitter Scan | Singers in video shared by Prashant Bhushan are not from Manipur's Kuki and Meitei communities

Leftist activist and Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan shared a misleading tweet about singer named Shekinah Mukhiya calling her a resident of Manipur. Amid the ongoing ethnic clashes between the Meiteis and the Kukis, he had shared a video in which she and her father singing a song blatantly claiming that one of them is a Kuki, and the other is Meitei.

 

 

 

Taking to platform X (formerly Twitter) on August 6, with the caption, he said, “How lovely and melodious 👏🏻👏🏻🎊🎼🎤 We are Humans first. Rest is notional. One of them is a Kuki, and the other is Meitei from sizzling Manipur. The beauty of diversity & Love". This went viral on the social media and several netizens shared the information widely.

 

 

However, the news turned out be false with Shekinah Mukhiya saying that they are not from Manipur and have no association with the Kuki or Meitei communities.

 

"We want to emphasize that the claim made in relation to the video is unquestionably 'false.' We firmly state that this tweet contains misinformation or disinformation that is circulating on social media," she said in a Facebook post.

 

Earlier, she said, "Regarding a tweet posted by Mr. Prashant Bhushan on August 6, 2023, it has been used to suggest that the people in the video are a Kuki and a Meitei singing together amid the ongoing conflict in Manipur involving these communities."

 

"However, we can confirm that the individuals in the video are Shekinah Mukhiya and her father, Vikash Mukhiya. It is important to note that we are not from Manipur and have no association with the Kuki or Meitei communities," she added.

 

Now, the father of the celebrity singer filed a complaint to DGP Uttarakhand stating that the tweet by Bhushan was false and that it was misleading.

 

Meanwhile, the tweet with false claims was published first by Prashant Bhushan and it continues to appear on his Twitter timeline even after being declared false and misleading by the singer herself.

 

Shekinah Mukhiya is a professional singer hailing from Dehradun, Uttarakhand. She was part of a popular TV reality show named ‘The Voice India Kids’ in 2018 edition.  Apart from this, Mukhiya also has a YouTube channel that has more than 126k subscribers.