“Recent video where Mayawati said, “Do not vote for radicals, rather transfer your vote to BJP”
What FACTLY found
The video is taken from a press conference by Mayawati after the local body elections in UP in 2006. The video is missing context. To defeat a ‘fundamentalist’ Muslim leader who was previously in her party and fielded his wife in Meerut, Mayawati said that, as it turned into a Hindu-Muslim tussle, she asked her voters to transfer their votes to BJP. After the 2006 local body elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati held a press conference and spoke about the BSP’s t...
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 2 February 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 9 February 2022, 7 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
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