Boomlive Fact Check: Lok Sabha elections are moving towards its fifth phase, but fake and old videos or photos are continuously going viral on social media and are spreading wrong messages in the society. One such old video is going viral in which the meeting between Samajwadi Party chief and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is shown.
On social media, users are sharing this video in the context of Lok Sabha elections 2024 and are commenting that after seeing the election results, Akhilesh Yadav went to meet PM Modi. But this claim is not correct. This video is 10 years old.
Boom’s Fact Check The team found in its investigation that the claims being made regarding the video are false. The viral video is from June 2014, when Akhilesh Yadav was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. While sharing the video, a Facebook user wrote, ‘As soon as Akhilesh knew the results of the elections, he reached Modi’s court to settle the matter.’
BOOM’s Fact Check team searched YouTube with keywords related to the viral video to investigate at all levels. This video was found shared on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s YouTube channel on June 13, 2014. In the description of the video, it was told that PM Modi met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
It is noteworthy that Akhilesh Yadav was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from March 2012 to March 2017. Akhilesh Yadav had given a courtesy visit to Narendra Modi after taking oath as the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi took oath as Prime Minister on 26 May 2014.
This video of the meeting between the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav and Prime Minister Modi was also shared on the YouTube channel of DD News. Apart from this, no recent reliable news report was found in which there was news of the meeting between Akhilesh Yadav and PM Modi.
(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 19, 2024, 12:15 IST