DigitEye India Fact Checkers
A video is making the rounds on social media claiming that Delhi is witnessing its first-ever Yamuna Aarti after the BJP’s win in recent Assembly elections held in February.
दिल्ली में आज पहली बार यमुना जी की आरती देखने को मिली🙏🏻
आशा यही है कि दिल्ली वालों को अब स्वच्छ यमुना में डुबकी लगाने का, किनारे घूमने का मौका मिलेगा
जय हो 🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/yHdVvKSXYn— CA Ashutosh Jha (@caashujha) February 12, 2025
The context being that the Bharatiya Janata Party defeated the Aam Aadmi Party in the 2025 Delhi Assembly elections and came to power after a gap of 27 years. The claim reads after translation as: “For the first time today, Yamuna ji’s Aarti was seen in Delhi. The hope is that now the people of Delhi will get a chance to take a dip in the clean Yamuna and stroll along its banks. Jai Ho.”
The video has been shared here and here.
FACT-CHECK
When received a tip on its authenticity, Digiteye India team searched for Yamuna Aarti in Delhi and found that the claim was misleading. Archived news reports showed that Yamuna Aarti at the Vasudev Ghat in Delhi’s Civil Lines area was offered way back in March 2024 and has been regularly going on since then every Sunday and Tuesday.
The Vasudev Ghat was constructed by the Delhi Development Authority under the initiative of Vinai Kumar Saxena, then Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. The Vasudev Ghat was inaugurated on March 12, 2024 and some news reports even said that the first Yamuna Aarti was performed in 2015 by then-Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. See the video uploaded nine years ago on YouTube here:
Hence, the claims that Yamuna Aarti is being offered for the first time in Delhi after the BJP’s victory in February 2025 is false.
Claim: For the first time today, Yamuna ji’s Aarti was seen in Delhi.
Conclusion: Misleading. Yamuna Aarti at the Vasudev Ghat in Delhi’s Civil Lines area is being regularly offered since March 2024.
Rating: Misleading — 
