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The claim

The viral Hindi tweet roughly translates to, “Today a new information was received that the first telephone in Gujarat was not installed at the house of a big industrialist mill owner but on Gandhiji’s table in Sabarmati Ashram….. * And this telephone was installed by the British by spending lakhs of rupees by getting a special line installed so that the British could talk to Gandhiji….. Understand countrymen…”

Original publisher’s rating

False

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