Ahead of Assembly elections in Kerala, an India TV bulletin is being circulated on social media with a claim that BJP is promising clean slaughter-houses and ‘quality beef’ in Kerala after it wins the elections.
“Tu iska Matlab a huwa How mata ko khane ka haq BJP wale sirf kearala waloun ko deyna chate hai..The BJP’s promise in Kerala is that if we come into government we will build clean slaughterhouses and eat good beef”, read the Facebook post.
Here’s the link to the post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the video and found it to be OLD.
We extracted keyframes from the video via the InVid tool and put them through Reverse Image Search. We found the video in question on YouTube which was uploaded on April 3, 2017. “Kerala BJP candidate promises of good quality beef if voted to power,” the video title read.
Further, using the keywords, we ran a Google search and found several media reports stating that the incident is from 2017.
According to the reports, the man in the video is Sreeprakash, the BJP candidate for the parliamentary by-election in Malappuram, who was campaigning in his constituency.
“I will ensure quality beef and standard abattoirs in my constituency. My opponents are citing beef ban just to portray my party in bad light,” Sreeprakash said while campaigning.
We also checked about the same person or anyone making a statement about beef sales but could not find anything related to this.
With all the information, it proves that the video in circulation is old and has re-surfaced ahead of Kerala Assembly Elections.
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