Skip to main content

The claim

Congress MP Renuka Chowdhury fiercely criticising the government’s handling of the CJP protesters right in front of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

Original publisher’s rating

FALSE

Reviewed by FACTLY ↗ ·

Read the original fact check ↗

Original review summary

FACTLY reports that the man standing beside Renuka Chowdhury in the viral video is Congress MP Syed Naseer Hussain, not Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The review says it compared the person in the video with photographs of both men and cross-checked images of Hussain.[S1]

Research date:

Sources and attribution

  1. [S1] FACTLY original review

    Original review · Retrieved October 15, 2026

Original review: FACTLY. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms. Summaries and context are produced by PeakMetrics with AI assistance.

Updated