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By Rohit Kumar A cropped video of actor and Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Kangana Ranaut is circulating with a false claim that it shows her accepting her defeat in the Lok Sabha elections as the crowd gathered only to see her and not vote for her. BOOM found that in the original video, Ranaut was addressing a remark made by Himachal Pradesh Congress president and incumbent MP from Mandi, Pratibha Singh regarding her. In the viral video, Kangana can be heard saying, "The crowd that gathers to see Kangana will not vote. They just come to see what kind of an object she is... and what beautifu...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar In a reel posted on Paltu Paltan, an Instagram account mocking opposition parties with 1 lakh 64 thousand followers, two Muslim men tell a Hindu man that if Congress comes to power, they will get half of his assets. One of the actors, playing a Muslim man, is 15-year-old Ashish Pandey from Bihar. Created in June 2022, Paltu Paltan has over 3000 posts, only following right wing and official Bharatiya Janata Party accounts with each reel garnering a little less than 10,000 likes. Pandey, who just appeared for his 10th standard exams, is part of a group called MVS Films,...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old ad for CEAT tyres has been edited to add a false anti-Modi tagline asking people to oust the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the centre. BOOM found that the video is from 2017 and shows an advertisement by CEAT tyres; it is unrelated to the ongoing Lok Sabha polls and does not carry any anti-Modi taglines as suggested in the viral claim. In the viral video, the man refuses to pay for a shopping bag, attempting to hold all the items himself, clearly struggling. The video ends with a tagline which can be translated to English as, "Want to save ...
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By Hazel Gandhi A video purporting to show Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) leader Subhashini Ali praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and calling him a "beacon of peace" while criticising Rahul Gandhi is viral online. BOOM found that the video misidentifies the elderly lady in the viral video as Subhashini Ali. Ali has clarified on her X handle that she did not make any such comments. In the video, the lady is seen in an interview by local news channel 99 Khabar. She talks about how Rahul Gandhi does not have any knowledge about politics and that if one wants to save India, they sh...
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By Ritika Jain Personal issues and not the University officials or ABVP leaders led to PhD student Rohith Vemula death by suicide, the Telangana Police said while closing its probe in this case. Vemula was not a “Dalit”, and his caste certificate was forged, the police said. “The deceased himself is aware that he does not belong to Scheduled Caste and his mother got him SC certificate,” the closure report filed before the Telangana High Court read. “Severe depression”, “disappointment” and fear that his “real caste identity” would be revealed could be the reasons that drove Vemula to take the ...
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By Srijit Das A cropped video of West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is circulating with a misleading claim that it shows him asking people to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and not the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the Lok Sabha elections. BOOM found that the video has been cropped and in the longer version of the video Chowdhury can be seen urging people to vote for the Congress candidate of Jangipur constituency of Bengal, Mortaza Hossain Bakul. In the 8-second-long video, Chowdhury can be heard saying, "It is better to vote for the BJP than the Trinamool... you a...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A quote purporting to show Jamyang Tsering Namgyal asked the people of Ladakh to forgive him for joining the Bharatiya Janata Party and supporting Prime Minister Narendra Modi is viral online. Fact: The viral quote is fake and has been misattributed to the Member of Parliament. The fake quote is viral after Jamyang Namgyal expressed his discontent as he was dropped and Tashi Gyalson was named as the BJP candidate from Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency. Tools used: We found that the official X handle of Namgyal posted a clarification about the statement falsely attrib...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video showing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker from Chennai being thrashed is viral online as recent and is being connected to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Fact: BOOM found that the video dates back to July 2023 and shows the District Secretary of BJP's IT and Social Media Cell in Chennai being beaten up by members of his own party. Tools used: We watched the viral video closely and noticed that it carried the date '31/07/2023'. We ran a search for the incident using Tamil keywords and found news reports published on August 1, 2023. Also, the verified ...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: Amit Malviya, Bharatiya Janata Party's IT cell head claimed that a video of party candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav alias Nirahua making remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath being childless, was a deepfake. In the video, Yadav the BJP candidate from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, claimed Modi and Adityanath have preferred to be childless to stop unemployment. It was posted by Indian Youth Congress President Srinivas BV on X and the same was rubbished as a deepfake by Malviya and Yadav himself. Fact: BOOM found that the vi...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video of former Congress member and now supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Acharya Pramod Krishnam, speaking about ending caste-based reservation in India at a rally is viral online as recent. BOOM found that the claims are misleading, the video of Krishnam is from September 2023 and he made these statements when he was a part of the Congress. He was expelled from Congress in February this year. In the viral video, Krishnam can be heard saying, "Politicians who accuse us of casteism are the ones who are politicians only for a few castes. They threaten us. I want ...
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