Fact Check: 2021 Video Clip of PM Modi’s Speech Widely Shared to Create Misleading Narrative

A video of Prime Minister Modi is being shared on social media, wherein he can be heard saying: “Show only dreams to the poor, tell lies, make them fight amongst each other and rule.”

The video is shared with a text: “Election जितने के लिए बीजेपी को मेहनत नही करना पड़ता, हिंदू मुस्लिम करके जीत जाते है” (English translation: BJP does not have to work hard to win the election, they win by doing Hindu Muslim.)

Here’s the link to the above post.

FACT CHECK

NewsMobile fact-checked the post, and found it to be misleading.

Running a Reverse Image Search, we identified a video uploaded by the official YouTube channel of Bharatiya Janata Party, dated March 21, 2021, with a title: “People of Assam know Congress guarantees-False Manifesto, Confusion, Corruption & scams and more”.