Hindu New Year celebrations began earlier this month. In this context, video of a chopper showering flowers on people has gone viral on social media. The video is being shared with a caption claiming that this is how Hindu New Year is being celebrated in Uttar Pradesh.
The caption associated with the image read, “बुलडोजर बाले बाबा जी के राज में “हिन्दु नववर्ष और नवरात्र पर्व” के शुभअवसर पर सनातनियों के ऊपर पुष्पों की वर्षा की अध्भुत दृष्य.” (English translation, “In the rule of Bulldozer Bale Baba Ji(hinting at Yogi Adityanath, on the auspicious occasion of “Hindu New Year and Navratra festival” amazing scene of showering flowers on Sanatanis.”)
The link to the post can be seen here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile did a fact-check and found the claim to be misleading.
On doing a Google Reverse Image Search with one of the screenshots of the viral video, we found the same video was uploaded by a YouTube channel, Hindu Bajrang Dal on April 2, 2022. The video is being shared with a title that reads, “Ramnavami Hindu Dal | Ranchi Jharkhand.” We also found that one of the billboards also mentions, Shri Mahaveer Mandal, Ranchi.
Taking a hint, we found the same video was also uploaded by another YouTube channel on March 25, 2018, with a geotag that says that the video is from Fariyalal Chowk, Ranchi, Jharkhand.
Another Facebook page had also uploaded a video of a helicopter showering flowers during the Ramnavami procession in Ranchi. The video was shared on March 26, 2018.
We further found that many other YouTube channels had shared the video of a helicopter showering flowers in Ranchi during Ram Navami in 2018. Similar videos can be seen here and here.
We also found that a Twitter user had uploaded images of the celebration of Ram Navami at Fariyalal chowk, Ranchi. We compared the image with a screenshot of the viral video and found the same buildings present in both the images.
Hence, we can ascertain that the viral video is of Ranchi and not of Uttar Pradesh.
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