New Delhi, July 26 -- The Ministry of External Affairs on Sunday said the viral posts on the alleged foreign funding of the recent Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protests, attributed to MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, were 'misleading'.

The foreign ministry said that the viral posts misrepresented Jaiswal's actual statement made during a biweekly media briefing on Friday, July 24.

"The post is misleading and misrepresents the statement of the Spokesperson," the MEA Fact Check unit said in an X post.

A viral X post claimed that Jaiswal said, "I have been asked about the funding of the CJP protest many a time. I want to say that our intelligence & investigation reveals there is no Foreign funding in it."

Rejecting the viral claim, the M...