Fact Check: This video of PM Modi talking about EVM machine is incomplete, know the whole truth
A video clip of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech is going viral on social media, in which he is seen giving some statements regarding EVM. In the video the Prime Minister says that “Even today, the educated people of the world, when elections are held, they die after reading the names on the ballot paper.”
The viral video has been shared on Facebook with the English language caption: This is goldFound this old video of Modi. Before 2014 Modi was saying that Election should be conducted with ballot papers not with EVM. Then why is the BJP defending EVM now?Spread this video everywhere.
Hindi translation- Found this old video of PM Modi. Before 2014, Modi was saying that elections should not be held through EVMs but through ballot papers. Then why is BJP defending EVMs now? Spread this video everywhere.
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Fact Check:
During Newsmobile’s investigation, we found out that the viral video is incomplete.
After seeing the video going viral on social media, we feared that it was incomplete. After which we investigated. First we broke the viral video clip into a few keyframes and then started searching through the Google Lens tool.
Started searching closely on Google. During the search we found it first published on the website of EconomicsTimes. an article A keyframe matching the viral video. Please note that this article was published on the website on December 03, 2016. From the received article, we learned that the viral video is of a rally held in Moradabad during the year 2016.
Based on the information received from the above article, we started searching closely on Google. During search, we found the viral video clip on the official YouTube channel of Bharatiya Janata Party. Which was uploaded on December 03, 2016. According to the information given in the caption of the video received, PM Modi had addressed a public meeting in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh during the year 2016.
After watching the above video found on YouTube for 1 minute and 8 minutes, we found the viral video clip part, here we found that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was informing the public about how much India has progressed in the field of technology. He said in his speech that “People say that our country is poor, people are illiterate, people do not know anything, brothers and sisters, even the educated countries of the world, when elections are held, they read the names on the ballot paper and then stamp them, even today, even in America. He further said that this is India, which you call illiterate and poor, it is the people who vote by pressing the button.,
During the investigation, from the facts obtained above, we came to know that in the viral video, Prime Minister Modi was telling the public in his speech how much India and the people of India have progressed in the field of technology. This video is being shared on social media with misleading claims.
