“Venkaiah Naidu, Vice Chairman of Rajya Sabha cried in the Parliament after forceful passage of a bill aimed at selling off the LIC”
What FACTLY found
On 12 August 2021, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu while addressing a session broke down into tears expressing his anguish over the protest created by the opposition MPs the previous day. His breakdown has nothing to do with government selling its stake in LIC, which was done through the Finance Act, 2021 earlier in March. Whereas on 12 August 2021 Rajya Sabha passed “The General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill, 2021“, which allows private participation in the public sector ...
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 15 August 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 16 August 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
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