A video is going viral on social media, wherein a lady can be seen taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP government. It is being shared with a claim that the lady in the video is a BJP MP named Menaka Kumari.
The video is being shared with the caption: Menaka Kumari…BJP MP. Is FIRING to Her Own Party Leadership.
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above post and found out that the claim is fake
We ran a keyword search and found that in 2021, the same video was shared with the claim that the woman is BJP leader Maneka Gandhi.
Further, on scrolling through Twitter along with some keywords, we came across a post by a user where he had clarified that the lady in the video is not Maneka Gandhi but a Congress leader from Ghaziabad, Dolly Sharma.
ये वीडियो सोशल मीडिया पर खूब लोकप्रियता बटोर रहा है,
बहुत से लोग लिख रहे हैं कि ये भाजपा नेत्री मेनका गांधी की स्पीच है किन्तु
मैं आप सभी को बता देना चाहता हूँ कि मेरी बड़ी बहन कॉंग्रेस नेत्री #Ghaziabad से पूर्व लोकसभा प्रत्याशी @dollysharmaINC जी है 🙏@ajitanjum @INCPunjab pic.twitter.com/PmHXAPI04B— Kuldeep Sharma 🇮🇳🙏 (@KuldipshrmaMP06) May 27, 2021
We found that the video is part of a 22 minutes 54 seconds Live video that was uploaded by Dolly Sharma on Facebook on April 20, 2021. At around the 14:15 timestamp, one can hear her make the statement that has gone viral on social media.
In a tweet, Dolly Sharma also posted that an FIR has been lodged by Pilibhit (UP) police against her after the video went viral in the name of Maneka Gandhi.
पीलीभीत पुलिस द्वारा मुझ पर दर्ज की गई एफआईआर एक उदाहरण है कि किस तरह प्रदेश में विपक्ष की आवाज दबाने की कोशिश की जा रही है। मेरा वीडियो किसी और नेता के नाम से वायरल करने वाले अज्ञात को छोड़ कर सरकार के दबाव में मुझ पर ही एफआईआर दर्ज की गई है। यह बेहद अविश्वसनीय एवं खेदजनक 1/2 pic.twitter.com/IkIbnTiBP6
— Dolly Sharma (@dollysharmaINC) May 30, 2021
Moreover, we also searched on My Neta but did not find any BJP MP by the name of Menaka Kumari.
Hence, from the above information, it is evident that an old video is being shared with a false claim.
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