“Smriti Irani made derogatory comments about the goddess Durga in a parliamentary speech”
Social media posts
Claim dated 19 Oct 2023.
FACTLY rated thisMISLEADING
What FACTLY found
The viral video is taken out of context from Smriti Irani’s actual 2016 speech, in which she was reading from an alleged pamphlet from JNU students
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 19 October 2023. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 31 October 2023, 12 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
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