The viral video shows President Droupadi Murmu saying she was blackmailed by Prime Minister Modi and the government to sit in the Rafale jet.

Original review summary

FACTLY reports that the viral clip was digitally altered: its original visuals came from a 14 February 2025 India Today livestream, months before Murmu’s Rafale sortie on 29 October 2025. The review says the full event video contains no such remarks and that PIB Fact Check also confirmed the clip was fake.[S1]