“A notification issued by the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department states that Panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be held after November 2025.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 5 Aug 2025.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The viral notification is fake. No official notification or credible media reports about Panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir were found. Both the Chief Minister of J&K and the Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj clarified on X that the notification is fake.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 5 August 2025. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 8 August 2025, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0248u2sqi3ab9mN1mMwQwKpW47h3VeJGnQ…
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