“Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has made vulgar remarks to warn village heads against the violation of lockdown rules in the villages”
Social media posts
Claim dated 18 Jul 2020.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The newspaper clip in the post is an edited one. The title of the article has been edited to insert vulgar language. While it is true that the government has made the village heads answerable for lockdown violations in the village, the derogatory words in the article’s title were not made by Bihar CM Nitish Kumar.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 18 July 2020. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 23 July 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2658396177743804&set=a.1376236719293096&type=3&th…
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