“A video showing the newly appointed General Secretary of Congress, Priyanka Gandhi, allegedly in an inebriated state has gone viral on several right-wing social media pages. But our research found the claims to be false.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 24 Jan 2019.
BBC Hindi rated thisFalse
In short
This claim spread on social media around 24 January 2019. BBC Hindi (India) looked into it and published its finding on 30 January 2019, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/khageshsengar11/videos/345100832757213/
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/dhiraj.dev.98/videos/2327816274121601/
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.