“Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that there are no poor people in India, that people only pretend to be poor, and that people are buying large quantities of gold and silver.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 1 Feb 2026.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
There is no evidence that Nirmala Sitharaman made any such remarks. No credible reports support this claim. The viral post was digitally edited and appears to have been altered from content originally shared by Molitics India.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 1 February 2026. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 4 February 2026, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/DUN0KZOFWoN/
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