A viral video claiming that Indian poet and politician Kumar Vishwas criticised PM Narendra Modi and Nirav Modi through his poem recently is doing the rounds on social media. Vishwas can be seen covered in colours, and while reciting the poem, he can be heard criticising the government for letting Nirav Modi run away from the country.
A Facebook user posted the viral post, with a caption: कविवर को आजकल डर क्यों नहीं लग रहा? “नीरव भागा…सोता चौकीदार..” पता नहीं क्या क्या बोल रहे हैं? ये साहस,ये बदलाव कैसे आया?
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral post, and found it to be misleading.
Running a Reverse Image search of the video keyframes, we spotted a Facebook post, dated March 2, 2018, on an unverified profile. The video is a longer 12-minute version of the viral clip and Vishwas can be heard criticising many leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal. This proves that the video has been online since 2018.
Spotting the logo of News Tak — an Indian media house, in the top right corner, we conducted a Google Keyword Search and found a YouTube video on the official channel of News Tak, dated March 2, 2018 and titled: Kumar Vishwas: होली पर कुमार विश्वास का ‘मोदी, राहुल, केजरीवाल’ स्पेशल | News Tak | Big Story.
The video matches the Facebook post from 2018 and the keyframes from the YouTube video match the viral clip, too, confirming that the viral clip is not recent.
Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral video is misleading.
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