A video of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia is circulating on social media claiming that he is slamming Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for issuing multiple vaccination drive advertisements in newspapers despite non availability of vaccines.
In the viral clip, Sisodia can be heard saying that there are four to five advertisements in every newspaper on vaccination drives though there are no vaccines available and government officers are being pressurized to issue advertisements. While Sisodia is talking, in the other panel of the video, advertisements by Kejriwal government are displayed with the caption stating, “Sisodia slams Kejriwal for no vaccines only ads”
The post is being shared on Facebook with a caption that reads, “Sisodia Slams Kejriwal For “No Vaccination, only Ads”
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim and found it to be false and misleading.
Doing a Reverse Image Search of important keyframes, we found the original video uploaded on Manish Sisodia’s Twitter account on June 21, 2021. In the video, Manish Sisodia is criticising the Centre and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) run state governments for issuing advertisements on the vaccination drive.
Addressing an important Press Conference | LIVE https://t.co/CCdbez8UeJ
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) June 21, 2021
It becomes evident that the text is overlaid on the video and the split-screen with visuals of AAP advertisements made viewers believe that Sisodia is speaking about Kejriwal.
The live video of the press conference shows that Sisodia addresses the vaccination drive advertisements issued by BJP state governments and the Centre. He then criticises them for the same saying while advertisements are being issued the problem of the availability of vaccines is not being addressed. The part where Sisodia mentions BJP state governments and the Modi government has been edited out in the viral clip.
“…Several newspapers across the nation today published long one-pager advertisements on the central government’s largest vaccination drive. State governments such as Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka also published similar advertisements in newspapers thanking the central government’s vaccination drive. The Centre needs to understand that our people need vaccines, not long advertisements. Instead of spending this much money on advertisements, if the Centre had spent it on procuring vaccines from abroad, our COVID-19 crisis could have been managed better..,” Sisodia can be heard saying in the original video.
Additionally, the press conference by Sisodia was also reported by several media outlets where he had claimed that the central government was putting pressure on the Delhi government to publish advertisements praising the vaccination drive and thanking PM Modi instead of focusing on procuring vaccines for citizens.
After Sisodia’s press conference, BJP leaders also hit out at the Aam Aadmi Party pointing out that the Kejriwal government did the same and shared photos of newspapers advertisements put out by the Delhi government on vaccination.
👉Modi government providing free vaccines : Zero ads
👉Kejriwal ji has nothing to do with vaccination, he’s campaigning in Punjab : Ads worth crores pic.twitter.com/vyjCGMflwb— S.Vishnu Vardhan Reddy (@SVishnuReddy) June 24, 2021
Thus, it is evident from the above information that the video of Manish Sisodia is being shared with false claims that he slammed Kejriwal.
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