A video showing Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy being pushed aside by a security personnel while accompanying Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi towards her car is being widely shared on social media.
In the viral clip, Reddy can be seen walking alongside Priyanka Gandhi when a security personnel appears to push him away multiple times. Social media users are sharing the footage with the claim that the incident shows the Chief Minister of Telangana being disrespected and sidelined by security personnel accompanying a Congress leader.
A Facebook user posted the viral post with the following caption:
Enough of seeing the condition of Karnataka’s Chief Minister; now look at the condition of Telangana’s Chief Minister.
You can check the post here.
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NewsMobile investigated the viral post and found the claims to be misleading.
On closely examining the viral video, we noticed the logo of Qube TV, a Telugu-language news channel, displayed on the footage. Taking a cue from this, we searched for the video on Qube TV’s official YouTube channel and found an identical clip uploaded on May 8, 2023.
A comparison of the viral footage with the video uploaded by Qube TV revealed that the visuals matched. Both clips showed Revanth Reddy accompanying Priyanka Gandhi towards her vehicle while a security personnel appeared to push him aside.
The upload date establishes that the incident occurred well before Reddy assumed office as the Chief Minister of Telangana.
Further investigation revealed that Priyanka Gandhi had addressed a public rally in Saroornagar, Telangana, on May 8, 2023, as part of the Congress party’s preparations for the state Assembly elections. The event was organised to unveil the Congress party’s Hyderabad Youth Declaration, which outlined several promises concerning employment and opportunities for young people in the state.
Qube TV had also uploaded several other videos from the same political event on May 8, 2023, further corroborating the original context of the viral footage.
It is important to note that Revanth Reddy was serving as the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president at the time of the incident. He subsequently became the Chief Minister of Telangana on December 7, 2023, following the Congress party’s victory in the state Assembly elections.
Thus, the incident captured in the viral video took place approximately seven months before he assumed the constitutional office of Chief Minister.
Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral post, claiming to show Revanth Reddy being pushed aside by a security personnel while accompanying Priyanka Gandhi, is misleading.
