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By Hazel Gandhi A video from inside a strong room, showing workers removing voting slips from VVPAT machines is being shared with claims that it shows EVM fraud by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) to win the Gujarat assembly elections. The video shows a man opening a sealed box and taking out the VVPAT machine and then removing all the slips (or votes) and putting them in a black envelope. He then proceeds to seal the envelope and closes the box again, placing a new roll of paper on top of the box. The person recording the video captures the entire room, full of these sealed boxes and VVPAT mac...
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By Sk Badiruddin An image purporting to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi sitting together with his mother Heeraben and his estranged wife Jashodaben on a sofa, is morphed and has been created as satire. BOOM found that the image has been doctored by adding Jashodaben's photo to it. The original image shows Modi seated with his mother Heeraben Modi when he visited Ahmedabad on December 4, 2022, a day before he cast his vote during the second phase of voting in the Gujarat Assembly elections 2022. The viral photo shows Modi is seated with his mother Heeraben and estranged wife Jashodaben. A por...
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By Mohammed Kudrati The exit polls provided by various channels show that Gujarat will authoritatively remain in the hands of the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) once again, though the hill state of Himachal Pradesh is neck and neck. Three days from now on December 8, when the polls will be counted, the BJP will take more than two-thirds of the seats in Gujarat, according to the exit polls. In Himachal Pradesh, while the contest between the BJP and primary opposition Congress is close, the BJP is still marginally ahead. Votes to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will also be coun...
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By Hazel Gandhi Viral posts claiming a stone was hurled at Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his roadshow in Ahmedabad, Gujarat are false. BOOM spoke to the Gujarat police who denied such an incident and said that a stone was not hurled and all posts claiming the same are fake. The police added while there is no evidence to suggest a stone was hurled, they were investigating whether a mobile phone was accidentally thrown at the PM's convoy with the flowers being showered at him. A Bharatiya Janata Party stronghold, Gujarat is seeing intense campaigning from both the ruling party and the new ...
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar A purported newspaper clipping claiming a Right To Information reply revealed Morbi civic body spent ₹30 crore on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's one day visit to the town after the bridge collapse, is fake. BOOM found that both the newspaper clipping and supposed RTI reply are fake. On October 30, 2022, a suspension bridge in Morbi collapse leaving over 130 dead and hundreds more injured. The Gujarat police in a suo moto FIR named, "the agency responsible for maintenance" of the bridge as accused. In a press conference, Inspector General, Rajkot, Ashok Yadav said that...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team An old video showing Paresh Rawal apologising to an agitated crowd, is being shared online claiming the actor and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said sorry for his recent remarks made in a speech ahead of assembly elections in Gujarat. The nearly one-minute long viral video shows a group of angry youngsters confronting the actor and demanding that the actor apologise. A policeman can be seen standing near Rawal in the video. The official Twitter handle of Manipur Congress Sevadal took a dig at Rawal based on the video and tweeted, "sir how is the josh?" (sic.) ...
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By Hazel Gandhi The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Gujarat unit used a photo of a flyover in Mumbai while listing proposed infrastructure projects in Gujarat, days ahead of the assembly election in the state. The poster shared by BJP Gujarat shows a flyover followed by text about development plans in the state. BOOM found that the flyover is from Mumbai, not Gujarat. The poster was designed as part of the 'Agresar Gujarat Sankalp' (Agresar roughly translates to 'pioneer' or 'leader' in English). The photo of a flyover with several developmental policies is being circualated online. The promise...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video of Isudan Gadhvi, Aam Aadmi Party's chief ministerial candidate from Gujarat waving at oncoming traffic during a roadshow is being shared with a misleading claim that it shows a poor turnout for his roadshow. BOOM found that the video is from May 2022, and Gadhvi was not declared as Gujarat's PM candidate until 4 November. The video is being shared as a way to mock Gadhvi for waving at motorists and with the claim that hardly anyone attended his roadshow. It has been shared by Srinivas BV, National President of Indian Youth Congress with a sarcastic caption that ro...
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By Archis Chowdhury A set of two disturbing photos showing a mob stripping a woman and attacking her is being shared on Twitter with the claim that it shows a Bharatiya Janata Party supporter being attacked by Congress workers in Bengal for sloganeering in support of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a Congress rally. BOOM found this claim to be false; our fact-check revealed that the images are from a 15-year-old event of mob attack on a tribal woman, that happened in Assam's Guwahati on November 26, 2007. Also Read:Did Iran Give Death Penalty To 15,000 Protesters? Fact-Check A user...
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