Vishvas News Fact Check: The election campaign is going on for the seventh and final phase of voting in the Lok Sabha elections. Amidst the elections, a video clip of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going viral on social media, about which it is being claimed that he allegedly used abusive language during his address at an election program.
Vishwas News In its investigation, it was found to be fake and election propaganda. During the investigation, it was also found that the viral video is edited, in which a loop has been created by editing the clip of a certain time frame of the speech, which creates the illusion of abusive language when heard. The original speech is of 21 April 2019, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while talking about the water problem and its solution in Patan, Gujarat, talked about dam construction and formation of a new water ministry in the country.
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Social media user ‘Jankranti Hapur’ shared the viral video clip and wrote, “‘Purposefully’ speaks such decent language from the stage, or is it just a coincidence? #boycutt_bjp #Loksabhaelections2024 #BlindBhaktMuktBharat.”
Fact Check
Vishvas News Fact Check team found that the viral video clip is of a few seconds and has the logo of ‘The Quint’ on it. On reverse image searching the key frames of the viral video clip, we found it uploaded on the official YouTube channel of ‘The Quint’. According to the information given, it is from a 2019 rally in Patan, Gujarat, which was addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
After this, we took the help of keyword search and found this video on the official YouTube channel of BJP, according to which, this is of a public meeting held in Patan, Gujarat on 21 April 2019. In this video clip, the part which has been included in the viral clip can be heard.
Since this speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Gujarati language, we took help from our partner Gujarati Jagran’s team to translate the relevant part. Gujarati Jagran provided us with the Gujarati and Hindi text of this part of Modi’s speech, which is as follows:
“The husband and wife have become the owners of the house of 23rd class, and they have become the owners of 23rd class. The police has given information about the people living on the banks of the river Saurashtra whose memories are a delight to know about,Ilaaj has become the father of the people and I have become the father of the people. There is a huge crowd outside the temple of Amur which has become so popular among the people.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that this time our new government will be formed on the evening of 23 May and the election results will come. The government will be formed, there will be a separate water ministry and people across the country say that in future there will be wars over water… hey brother everyone is saying that there will be wars over water, so why don’t we build dams before water from now on…. We have taught the people of Gujarat to build dams before water.
PM Modi addresses public meeting in Patan, Gujarat. Dial 9345014501 to listen LIVE. #IndiaBoleNaMoPhirSe https://t.co/EyRI3Lvj6v
— BJP (@BJP4India) April 21, 2019