“A letter is getting viral in South India with a claim that in Telangana's local-body elections, one of the voter asked the Chief Minister to provide their district with enough supplies of Kingfisher beer. However, the claim is False.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 4 Jun 2019.
BBC Hindi rated thisFalse
In short
This claim spread on social media around 4 June 2019. BBC Hindi (India) looked into it and published its finding on 8 June 2019, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- ntvtelugu.comhttps://www.ntvtelugu.com/post/unknown-person-letter-to-cm-kcr-with-ballot-paper-for-kf-b…
- tv9telugu.comhttps://tv9telugu.com/wanted-kingfisher-beer-say-voter-via-letters-found-in-ballot-boxes-…
- andhrajyothy.comhttps://www.andhrajyothy.com/artical?SID=811541
- telugu.samayam.comhttps://telugu.samayam.com/latest-news/state-news/jagtial-man-open-letter-cm-kcr-and-urge…
Links recorded by BBC Hindi. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by BBC Hindi, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.