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By Nidhi Jacob Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in a recent speech at Serampore, West Bengal, claimed that the state’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee refuses to grant holidays for Durga Puja but allocates holidays for Muslims during Ramzan. Shah’s claim is false. BOOM found that the West Bengal government grants holidays not only for Durga Puja but for other religious occasions as well. At the 18:14 timestamp, Shah states, “[Mamata Banerjee] opposes the Ram Mandir. She does not give permission for Durga Visarjan but gives holidays for Muslim workers on Ramzan. We do not have a problem with that,...
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By Anmol Alphonso Claims of rigging electronic voting machines (EVMs), claims of scrapping reservations, old videos and communal claims, were the dominant themes of misinformation in the second phase of polling. BOOM fact-checked around 20 pieces of misinformation from April 26, 2024 to May 5. False claims surrounding videos of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), old and cropped videos including Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Shah's video was shared claiming his party would scrap reservations, and communal allegations aimed at the Muslim community were among the debunked c...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video of Home Minister Amit Shah is being shared on social media claiming that it shows him promising to end reservations for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) communities if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is voted back to power. Fact: BOOM found that an old video has been edited and in the original video which dates back to 2023, Amit Shah is seen talking about ending Muslim reservation in Telangana if BJP is voted to power in the state. Shah had recently dismissed Congress' allegation that his party would end r...
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By Archis Chowdhury An edited video of Home Minister Amit Shah went viral recently, falsely showing him promising an end to reservations for Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes. While BOOM's fact-check found that the video was doctored using video editing tools, it was falsely labelled as a 'deepfake' by other Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, and various mainstream media outlets. Political parties in India are experimenting with AI in myriad ways this election season. For instance, AI voice clones of politicians are being used to craft cadre and voter outreach message...
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By Anmol Alphonso An old video of Home Minister Amit Shah talking about ending Muslim reservation in Telangana has been doctored and shared with the false claim that it shows him promising to end reservation of the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) community if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is voted back to power. In the viral video Shah can be heard saying, "If the Bharatiya Janata Party forms the government, we will end the unconstitutional reservation for SC, ST and OBC." The video was posted by Jharkhand Congress with the caption that rough...
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By Anmol Alphonso An old video of Home Minister Amit Shah saying that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has freed the people of Uttar Pradesh from former gangster turned legislator Mukhtar Ansari is being shared on social media falsely claiming that it a recent speech Shah gave after the death of Ansari. BOOM found that the viral video is from a public rally of Shah held in Kasganj, Uttar Pradesh in April 2019 during the election campaign before the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections that year. Jailed former legislator Ansari (63) died on March 28, 2024, due to cardiac arrest according to governm...
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By Anmol Alphonso A cropped video of a journalist asking a question to Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar about cases of alleged violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah is being shared with a false claim that he dodged the question. The Election Commission held a press conference on March 16, 2024, announcing the schedule for the general elections in the country. CEC Kumar took questions from several reporters present at the press conference after announcing the schedule. The 39 seconds video shows Ashlin Mathew from Na...
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By Archis Chowdhury "During the Rajasthan Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to face opposition from the people, and he was not even allowed to deliver his speech. Same was the situation with Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Minister Smriti Irani." The above claims are entirely false, but were presented as facts on a Facebook page named Nation TV. With more than 15000 followers and nearly 2000 likes, this page has been rampantly sharing videos with false or misleading claims, in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party, and in support of Congress. Registered as a 'News and M...
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By Srijit Das A cropped video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah is being shared on social media to falsely claim that it features Shah asking people to not vote for Manoj Nirbhay Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) MLA candidate in Depalpur, Madhya Pradesh. The widely shared video captures Shah saying, "Brothers and Sisters, as you head to vote on the 17th, remember this - do not vote Manoj Nirbhay Singh to make him an MLA." BOOM found that Shah, in his original speech, actually urged voters to support Singh in the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly election. As November 17 approaches in Ma...
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By Nidhi Jacob On October 16, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, while addressing his first public event, post the announcement of the election dates in Chhattisgarh, claimed that educational institutes such as the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences were first built by the BJP government in India. Shah's claims can be heard at 37:59 timestamp. Chhattisgarh's 2023 Assembly elections will be held in two phases -- November...
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