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Achi news desk-
Claim: He hit Kejriwal in an election rally for exposing corruption
Fact: This is an event in the 2019 election campaign, the news is misleading.
A video of a man slapping Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal during a roadshow is doing rounds on social media.
(Fact-checking story published by the News Meter team, in a team as part of Shakti Collective)
A video of a man slapping Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal during a roadshow is doing rounds on social media. Those who shared the video say the incident took place during the party’s campaign during the 2024 elections after CM Kejriwal was released from jail on bail in the Delhi liquor policy scam case.
User X shared a video on May 12, 2024, linking it to the ongoing elections. (Archive)
Similar posts are circulating on social media.
Fact check:
NewsMeter found that the video is dated May 4, 2019 and is not related to the 2024 general elections. When we did a reverse image search of the keyframes of the video, we found that it was uploaded on May 4, 2019, on a YouTube channel Hindustan Times.
The video was published under the title ‘Watch: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal hit during road show in Moti Nagar’. According to the headline, the incident took place during Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s roadshow in Delhi’s Moti Nagar area during the campaign for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections Also, a keyword search hit “Arvind Kejriwal during a roadshow in Delhi, AAP blames BJP” published on. NDTV on May 5, 2019. Which brings us to the main report.
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was hit by a man during a road show in Moti Nagar area on Saturday, according to reports. Mr. Aam Aadmi Party chief Kejriwal standing on top of an open jeep. He was campaigning in the New Delhi constituency. Then the man jumped and attacked them. He has been identified as 33-year-old Suresh, who sells spare parts. Meanwhile, AAP has blamed BJP for the attack.
In addition, the Deccan Chronicle published a statement on May 10, 2019 expressing remorse for the actions of the attacker, Suresh, saying that he did not understand why he attacked the Prime Minister.
We saw similar reports from The Indian Express, Business Standard, FirstPost and Times of India. The video in the post is 5 years old and has nothing to do with Kejriwal’s campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
(Fact-checking story published by the News Meter team, in a team as part of Shakti Collective)
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