Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister caught on camera using an expletive
A video showing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath lashing out at a camera person from news wire ANI (Asian News International ) has gone viral with claims that the chief minister was caught on camera using an expletive.
The viral clip shows the chief minister giving a sound byte to an ANI journalist after the former received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine COVAXIN on Monday morning.
In the video, Adityanath thanks the country's scientists before getting distracted by a disturbance in the background. The UP chief minister then lowers his voice and can be heard allegedly saying, "kya karte ho ch*tiyapane ka..." with the words trailing off.
The clip was also picked up by the Aam Aadami Party's Twitter handle.
Several right wing users retorted claiming the video is "fake", "dubbed over" and "edited". A website named BreakingTube.com was one of the first to call the video fake.
A video uploaded to ANI's official YouTube feed does not contain the alleged abusive word.
A video clip of the live feed was tweeted by former IAS officer Surya Pratap Singh and quickly went viral on social media. In response, Adityanath’s media advisor, Shalab Mani Tripathi, claimed the video was fake and said FIRs will be filed against those tweeting it. A story from a random website, ‘Breaking Tube’, was used as ‘evidence’ of the video being morphed. The story merely said the video was fake but did not disclose details on how it did its fact check.
Right wing website OpIndia relied on a tweet by NewsNation TV anchor Deepak Chaurasia who in turn called the video 'edited' and said the last three seconds of the clip were tampered with.
Another right wing social media outlet Social Tamasha created a two-window comparison of the viral video with the video shared by ANI UP and claimed it was fake.
However, the Twitter users who shared the earlier video pointed out that the two videos show different angles, different sentences spoken by the CM and therefore is not the same.
Boom Live confirmed this, and a fact-check by the respected fact-checking site, AltNews, has reached the same conclusion: ‘Video of Yogi Adityanath using abusive word is NOT edited’.
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