A video showing a massive crowd dancing to a loud DJ is widely shared on social media, claiming that it shows the Hanuman Jayanti celebration in Delhi.
The post reads: राजधानी दिल्ली में हनुमान जन्मोत्सव पर उमड़ा भगवाधारी हिंदुओं का जन सैलाब! शांतिपूर्ण तरीके से शोभायात्रा निकाली जा रही हैं! “जय श्री राम” (English translation: Crowd of saffron-clad Hindus gathered on Hanuman Janmotsav in the capital Delhi! Processions are being taken out in a peaceful manner. “Jai Shri Ram”)
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be misleading.
Performing a Reverse Image Search, we spotted a Facebook page carrying the same viral video, dated April 17, 2022, with a caption: “Odisha.” This clearly means that the video is not recent.
Searching further, we found the longer version of the same video uploaded on another Facebook page, dated April 11, 2022, with a caption: “आपदामप हर्तारम दातारं सर्व सम्पदाम, लोकाभिरामं श्री रामं भूयो भूयो नामाम्यहम। श्री रामाय रामभद्राय रामचन्द्राय वेधसे, रघुनाथाय नाथाय सीताया पतये नमः।। #nacdhamanagar #Bhadrak #Odisha #RamNavami #Sanskrit #news.” This video also claims that it is from Odisha.
In the longer version of the video, there are billboards with the names of various businesses, including “Gujarath Sales”, “Bharath Fashion”, “Pearl”, and “IDBI Bank”. And Bharath Fashion is a shop in Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka.
Also, through Google Street View, the setting of the IDBI Bank Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka, resembles the one in the extended version of the viral video.
Multiple videos had been uploaded on YouTube in 2021, claiming that it was the Datta Jayanti celebration in Chikkamagaluru. A Twitter handle had also carried the same viral video, dated December 12, 2019, with a caption: “These type of grand celebrations of Datta Jayanti in Chikkamagaluru is possible only during the BJP govt.”
Earlier, NewsMobile had debunked the same video when it was shared as ‘historic’ turnout for a recent Ram Navami procession in Purnia, Bihar.
https://newsmobile.in/articles/2023/04/04/fact-check-old-video-falsely-shared-as-massive-turnout-for-ram-navami-procession-in-bihar/
Thus, it is confirmed that the viral video dates back to 2019, NOT a recent one from Delhi.
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