“Recent video of people blocking the cavalcade of Smriti Irani in UP ahead of Assembly elections”
Social media posts
Claim dated 11 Jan 2022.
FACTLY rated thisMISLEADING
What FACTLY found
he video is not a recent one. The incident took place in 2020. Several news agencies reported that a few Congress workers protesting over the Hathras rape incident blocked Smriti Irani’s cavalcade in Varanasi
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 11 January 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 24 January 2022, 13 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
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