“Indian Youth Congress’s online magazine Yuva Desh recently tweeted that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made two of her MPs resign to make way for Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did not win a single seat in the parliament. We found the claims to be false.”
Yuva Desh
Claim dated 17 May 2019.
BBC Hindi rated thisMisleading
In short
Yuva Desh made this claim around 17 May 2019. BBC Hindi (India) looked into it and published its finding on 21 May 2019, 4 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Where the claim appeared
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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.