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Fact originally verified by Boom Live: The Assembly elections in Maharashtra are over. Mahayuti won an excellent victory in these elections. While Mahavikas Aghadi has faced a crushing defeat. Shiv Sena UBT was claiming victory, but the situation of Shiv Sena UBT has worsened than in the previous elections. Meanwhile, a video of Shivsena UBT leader Sanjay Raut is going viral on social media. This video shows Sanjay Raut playing the harmonium. Users are investigating the defeat of Mahavikas Aghadi-led Shivsen UBT by claiming that Sanjay Raut is enjoying harmony after losing in the Maharashtra elections and destroying two big parties of the country. It is noteworthy that in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, the Mahavikas Aghadi alliance was reduced to just 46 seats. Shiv Sena UBT is also part of this alliance. While BJP-led Mahayuti won 233 seats.
Sharing a post on Facebook, a user wrote, ‘Shiv Sena party leader Sanjay Raut ended the entire party and started playing harmonium because the wedding season is on. Eat the whole party but don’t have the slightest pride.
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Sharing the same image of this video on Facebook, another user wrote, ‘There was a Sanjay in the Mahabharata period, who destroyed the empire by killing the Kaurava army along with all his family members and this is Sanjay Raut. The guy demonstrated it by doing. Not just one, but two or two entire groups meet at his house.
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BOOM found out in its fact check that this video of Sanjay Raut shared in connection with the Maharashtra election results is from the year 2020. On searching for keywords related to Sanjay Raut playing harmonium, we found a lot of news, not recent, but from the year 2020. According to the Loksatta report of March 26, 2020, a lockdown was imposed in the country due to the Corona epidemic. Meanwhile, this video had surfaced of Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut playing the harmonium while sitting at home. In Zee News and News 18 Lokmat report on March 24, 2020, it was reported that Sanjay Raut’s daughter Purvasha Raut had shared this video on her social media.
Apart from Marathi News Facebook page, this video has also appeared on News Express, NMF News and Aaj Tak YouTube channel. In fact, during the lockdown imposed in the country due to the Corona epidemic, photographs of many leaders appeared in which they were seen spending time in their respective homes.
(Disclaimer: This fact check was originally conducted by Boom Live, republished by India TV with the help of Shakti Collective.
