A video of the interview of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari is becoming increasingly viral on social media. In the video, he is sitting in front of a female interviewer where she questions Union Minister Nitin Gadkari. “How do you see Rahul Gandhi?”After this Gadkari says that“When I got closer to those whom I thought were small from a distance, I came to know that they are very big.,
While sharing the viral video on Facebook, it is written in the Hindi language caption that ,Anchor: How do you see Rahul Gandhi?,Nitin Gadkari: Those whom I considered small from a distance, when I got closer to them, I found out that they are very big.
Facebook’s viral post link hereSee.
Fact Check:
During Newsmobile’s investigation, we found out that the viral video is edited.
To know the truth of the viral video, we started searching closely on Google. During the search, we found another video matching the viral video on the official BBC X handle, which was uploaded on October 08, 2024.
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Rupa Jha, CEO of Collective Newsroom (@rupa_jha ) had this special conversation with Nitin Gadkari. pic.twitter.com/gaYypErcfD— BBC News Hindi (@BBHCindi) October 8, 2024
From the post received above, we learned that the viral video is during an interview conducted by BBC news agency. So started searching to know the truth of the viral video. During the search, we found the full video of the viral video interview on BBC’s official YouTube channel. Which was uploaded on October 10, 2024.
During this, we saw that at 26 minutes 57 seconds of the video, the journalist asks Union Minister Gadkari, “How do you see Rahul Gandhi?” In response, Gadkari says, “I see everyone in a good light.”
The journalist again asks what is your opinion about him (Rahul Gandhi). To this Gadkari replies, “This is my opinion about everyone. You may not know that Communist Party’s Politburo AB Bardhan was from Nagpur. I have seen him since childhood. He was an icon for me. Sharad Joshi was in the farmers organization. I got to learn a lot from him. I believe in them..”
It is noteworthy that Gadkari did not say anything in response to the journalist’s question which is shown in the viral video. At the end of this interview, at 27 minutes 48 seconds, Gadkari says, “I will end my speech by saying one thing. After coming to Delhi I experienced one thing. I met different types of people. Which includes cricketers, film actors, Bill Gates and people from all over the world. So I noticed one thing that after going closer to the people whom I thought were very big from a distance, I came to know that they are small and after going closer to the people whom I thought were small from a distance, I came to know that they are very big. Are.”
The facts found during the investigation proved that this viral video of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari is being edited and shared on social media.
