“Video showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi refusing to accept the idol of Lord Ganesha.”
What FACTLY found
This video is from a public meeting held in Ankola, in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, during PM Modi’s campaigning for the Karnataka Assembly elections on 03 May 2023. The original video of this meeting has been edited between timestamps 02:05 and 02:16 and shared with a false narrative. In the longer version of the video, we can clearly see PM Modi accepting the idol of Lord Ganesha presented to him and also posing with it for a photograph on stage
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 27 March 2024. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 28 March 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/umashankar.sharma.54584/posts/pfbid02Df16EnBSGqXZtpoMDHfmuAiM6t5…
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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.