Baba Thoka digitally altered a 2025 WION interview to put fake anti-government remarks in Lt Gen Neeraj Shukla’s mouth
Baba Thoka digitally altered a 2025 WION interview to put fake anti-government remarks in Lt Gen Neeraj Shukla’s mouth
Executive Summaryसारांश
The video Baba Thoka used to claim Lt Gen Neeraj Shukla said the Army is “struggling” against China in Arunachal is a digitally altered clip of a WION interview from October 29, 2025. In the original, the officer speaks about India’s homegrown satellite navigation system and space capabilities. He makes no remarks about China in Arunachal or about the government failing the Army.The video Baba Thoka used to claim Lt Gen Neeraj Shukla said the Army is “struggling” against China in Arunachal is a digitally altered clip of a WION interview from October 29, 2025. In the original, the officer speaks about India’s homegrown satellite navigation system and space capabilities. He makes no remarks about China in Arunachal or about the government failing the Army.
Full Reportपूरी रिपोर्ट
Fact-checkers traced the 41-second clip posted by Baba Thoka (@BabaThokaIndia) on October 29, 2026, which carries a WION logo and a “Baba Thoka” watermark, to a WION YouTube video published exactly a year earlier, on October 29, 2025. That video is titled “WION Exclusive: Indian Army General: Homegrown Navigation System to Cover Africa to Malacca”. In it, the officer speaks to WION’s Sidhant Sibal on the WION podcast about India’s indigenous navigation system, space capabilities and the upcoming Chanakya Defence Dialogue. The viral version was digitally altered, and its accompanying text invents claims that the Army is losing ground to China in Arunachal Pradesh, that its equipment is outdated, and that the government is putting its own interests above the soldiers. Nothing like this appears in the original interview. This is the latest in a series of Baba Thoka posts that manipulate genuine footage of senior officers to fabricate dissent within the Army, so statements attributed to commanders should be checked against the original source before being shared.
Fact-checkers traced the 41-second clip posted by Baba Thoka (@BabaThokaIndia) on October 29, 2026, which carries a WION logo and a “Baba Thoka” watermark, to a WION YouTube video published exactly a year earlier, on October 29, 2025. That video is titled “WION Exclusive: Indian Army General: Homegrown Navigation System to Cover Africa to Malacca”. In it, the officer speaks to WION’s Sidhant Sibal on the WION podcast about India’s indigenous navigation system, space capabilities and the upcoming Chanakya Defence Dialogue. The viral version was digitally altered, and its accompanying text invents claims that the Army is losing ground to China in Arunachal Pradesh, that its equipment is outdated, and that the government is putting its own interests above the soldiers. Nothing like this appears in the original interview. This is the latest in a series of Baba Thoka posts that manipulate genuine footage of senior officers to fabricate dissent within the Army, so statements attributed to commanders should be checked against the original source before being shared.