A video on social media is going viral claiming that Rajasthan voters woun’t vote for Congress after the recent communal violence in Karauli. The caption in Hindi reads: “Following the Ram Navami incident in Karauli, Rajasthan, we pledge not to vote for Congress.” It was shared widely on FACEBOOK and on Twitter. FACT CHECK When our team conducted a Google ...
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Video claims burqa-clad women with fake identity cards voting for SP; Fact Check
As the state assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are going on in phases, the Samajwadi Party has been facing false allegations and several videos have been released on social media with false claims. In this context, a video of a woman holding several Voting Identity cards has been going viral with a claim that the burqa-clad women are caught red-handed ...
Read More »Video on boy tweaked to claim ‘Hindu beaten up’ goes viral; Fact Check
A video just on the sidelines of voting in West Bengal has gone viral with a claim that a Hindu boy is being thrashed by a group of men. It claimed that the boy had hoisted a flag of BJP on top of his house in West Bengal. The video was widely shared online and just before the final phase ...
Read More »Is Yogendra Yadav’s original name Salim? Fact check
BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya recently tweeted inserting a video that claims Yogendra Yadav of Swaraj India party was named Salim originally and sought votes using the name. He claimed, “I usually don’t carry TV debates to social media but making an exception to expose Yogendra Yadav’s Janus face.” Here’s the video shared by Malaviya in which Yadav was ...
Read More »Did pro-Modi chanting disrupt Rahul Gandhi’s Ujjain rally recently? Fact check
The above video on Facebook has gone viral depicting that a rally by Rahul Gandhi in Ujjain last week has been interrupted by slogan-shouting mob who repeatedly said, “Modi”,”Modi”. It was uploaded by one Rajiv Mittal and the 12-second video ends abruptly after Rahul Gandhi says that they should be allowed to raise slogans. The comment says that Rahul Gandhi’s ...
Read More »Video shows Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Chaturvedi with doctored sound track
The above video showing Rahul Gandhi taking some papers behind the chair of Priyanka Chaturvedi, while she was speaking out something. She was shown in the background voice saying that she cannot live without him. “If you haven’t seen this, then you have seen nothing today,” says the caption in Hindi. The video has been shared at a time when ...
Read More »Clipped video shows Kanhaiya Kumar speaking as a Muslim himself, what’s the truth?
A clip showing former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar speaking as if he is a Muslim, despite the fact that everybody knows that he is a known Communist Party of India member. Here’s the clipped video circulated by BJP India on its Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/deshdkapoor/videos/740463559646700/ Seeing the video, people tend to believe that Kanhaiya Kumar was speaking as if he ...
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