Screenshot of fake post in name of UP CM Yogi Adityanath goes viral on social media
Fact originally verified by Boom: Every day some video or photo goes viral on social networks. Many of them have no connection with the truth. Or rather, posts and videos go viral with false or misleading claims. Similarly, a screenshot of UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s fake post is going viral on social media platform , you will be divided like Gujarat! Now decide whether to divide or be divided.”
On social media, users are sharing it considering it to be Yogi Adityanath’s statement. When we looked into it, we found that the screenshot of the viral post in the name of Yogi Adityanath was fake. While sharing this post on
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A screenshot of the post ‘If you divide, you will be cut like Kashmir’ is viral on social media in the name of Yogi Adityanath, and during investigation it was found to be fake.
During the investigation, we noticed that the date November 12, 2024 is written on the viral X-post. We checked Yogi Adityanath’s we found no such publication there.
Apart from this, in the viral screenshot made with picaso.me It has a watermark of , possibly having been edited from this website.
We also search for media reports with relevant keywords. It was said in many media reports that during the Haryana Assembly elections, Yogi’s statement “If you divide, you will be cut” was widely discussed, although he did not mention Kashmir. Apart from the UP by-elections, his statement will also be heard in the Haryana, Jharkhand and Maharashtra assembly elections.
According to Navbharat Times report on August 26, 2024, at a program organized on the occasion of Janmashtami in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath had said, “We should learn a lesson from Bangladesh, we should not divide. If we divide, we will be divided and one. If we remain, we will continue to be just.”
Recently, Yogi had also made this statement during the election rally in Washim, Maharashtra, which was opposed by the opposition and BJP allies in Maharashtra Ajit Pawar and Ashok Chavan. Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis himself also gave clarifications in this regard. It may be noted that apart from all seats in Maharashtra, voting for the second phase of Jharkhand assembly elections will be held on November 20, 2024.
Say: In a viral post on social media, it was stated on behalf of Yogi Adityanath that “if you divide, you will be cut.”
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Fact Check: FAKE
(Disclaimer: This fact check was originally conducted by BOOM, republished by India TV with the help of Shakti Collective)
