Boom Fact Check: A video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah is going viral on social media in the midst of the Lok Sabha elections in which he is saying, “I say that guarantees have no meaning, they say this till the elections and then forget it.” Social media users are sharing the video and claiming that Amit Shah is saying this for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But this video has been found to be fake after investigation.
boomlive news In its investigation, the Fact Check team of @BJP4India found that the viral video of Amit Shah is cropped and is being shared with a false claim. In the original video, Amit Shah is targeting the Congress.
Sharing the video on social media platform X, a user wrote, ‘Amit Shah ji invented the slogan, now he is saying that even the guarantee has no meaning. He says it till the elections and then forgets it. Overall, he wants to occupy the Prime Minister’s chair himself. First he trapped Modi in the name of Jumlebaaz, now he has ruined the guarantee as well.’
BOOM did a reverse image search of the key frames of the viral video on Google using the InVid tool for fact check. During the investigation, a video of Amit Shah’s interview dated May 15, 2024 was found on the YouTube channel of news agency ANI. The viral video has been cropped from this.
At 25 minutes, 14 seconds into the video, Amit Shah is asked a question about Congress’ guarantee that you have called Congress’ guarantee a Chinese guarantee. In response to this, Amit Shah says, “I just went to Telangana, the women there are waiting for their 12,000 rupees to come. The farmers there are waiting for a loan waiver of two lakh rupees. The girls there are waiting for scooties. Rahul ji had promised that he had a guarantee, you should find Rahul ji.”
Meanwhile, Amit Shah is asked, “At that time, there were elections in the South, now they are over, Rahul ji has come to the North now.” In response to which Amit Shah says, “He used to go when there were elections in the South, that is why I say that his guarantee has no meaning, he speaks till the elections and then forgets.”
(This story was originally published by boomlive.in. Fact Check Desk, as part of the Shakti Collective. Except for the headline/excerpt/opening introduction para this story has not been edited by News18india.com staff)
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FIRST PUBLISHED : May 25, 2024, 18:15 IST