“Old picture of DMK politician E. V. Velu pulling the rickshaw of the late Karunanidhi”
What FACTLY found
The rickshaw puller seen in the picture is not E. V. Velu. The photo was taken during a campaign for the 1991 Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections in Chennai. E. V. Velu graduated in Tamil literature and initially worked as a bus conductor before contesting for the first time and won on behalf of the AIADMK Party in the 1984 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. E. V. Velu joined the DMK party in the year 2000 and there are no news reports about E. V. Velu’s involvement in the DMK Party’s campaign for the ...
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 6 November 2023. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 8 November 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid038JSMxYNcy2JWuhDX7JpkWHbNE22bBfxt…
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