Were the men who waved the Indian flag at the Capitol supporters of the Congress party?

A video of an Indian flag raised before Donald Trump supporters rioted at Capitol Hill in Washington DC on Wednesday sparked controversy in India after several mainstream media channels claimed that the man who waved the flag is a supporter of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.

“I will show you how Shashi Tharoor fell in his own trap,” India TV chairman Rajat Sharma told his viewers in a broadcast on January 8. Sharma was referring to Tharoor’s tweet saying, “There are some Indians with the same mentality as that Trumpist mob, who enjoy using the flag as a weapon rather than a badge of pride…”.

While neither the Bharatiya Janata Party nor Prime Minister Narendra Modi found mention in Tharoor’s statement, Sharma said, “The person whose act was used to condemn Narendra Modi is a…