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“Union Minister Rajnath Singh has decided to conduct the future army recruitments through the previous approach and not via Agnipath scheme -TV breaking news”
Social media posts Claim dated 8 Jul 2022.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE

What FACTLY found

Defence minister Rajnath Singh did not announce any such decision about future army recruitments to be done through previous recruitment approach. Currently, army recruitments are being done through the Agnipath scheme. In fact, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is scheduled to brief the Parliamentary Consultative Committee of Defence on the issue of new Agnipath recruitment scheme on 11 July 2022. Further, no popular new channel reported any news as claimed in the viral video. The viral news cl...

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In short

This claim spread on social media around 8 July 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 11 July 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.

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