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FACTLYElections & voting

Video message of Prakash Raj asking not to waste vote on Congress in the 2023 Karnataka elections

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a 13-second clip in which actor Prakash Raj says, “Don’t waste your on Congress,” shared as though he were addressing voters before Karnataka’s 2023 election. The review says the assembly election was scheduled for 10 May 2023 and that the clip was circulating in the run-up to that vote. To check the clip’s provenance, the review reports searching relevant keywords and finding a longer version posted by Prakash Raj on Twitter. That video was released on 17 April 2019, during the Lok Sabha elections. In it, Raj was responding to Congress’s use of a photograph showing him shaking hands with Rizwan and to what he described as false claims that he supported Congress—not urging Karnataka voters in 2023 to reject the party. The review also places the 2019 video in the context of Raj’s candidacy: he contested the Bangalore Central constituency as an independent and finished third. The mismatch between the video’s 2019 context and the 2023 election framing is the key evidence that the clip was misleadingly presented as a current election message. The review notes that Raj was, by contrast, critical of the BJP during the 2023 campaign and had predicted a clear mandate for Congress.

Fact CrescendoElections & voting

श्री डीके शिवकुमार, डोर टू डोर कैंपेनिंग के दौरान पूरी तरह से नशे में थे और इन्सान कर्नाटक के सीएम उम्मीदवार होंगे, अगर आगामी विधानसभा चुनावों में कांग्रेस को बहुमत मिला

Publisher’s rating: False

FACTLYElections & voting

A screenshot with a list of opinion poll predictions is published by ‘NDTV’, and all these predict Congress winning majority seats in the 2023 Karnataka Assembly Elections

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a screenshot circulating ahead of Karnataka’s 10 May 2023 Assembly elections. It was presented as an NDTV-published list of opinion-poll predictions, all forecasting a Congress majority; it also attributed predictions to internal surveys by the RSS and State Intelligence Bureau. The review says the screenshot was not published by NDTV and that the claimed survey predictions from those two organizations could not be substantiated. To check the NDTV attribution, the review reports searching NDTV’s official Twitter and other social media accounts for a matching list and finding none. It also points to NDTV’s response to the viral image: the broadcaster called the posts misleading and said its Poll of Exit Polls would be announced on election night, after voting ended. That statement contradicts the screenshot’s presentation as an NDTV poll tracker already reporting predictions. The review distinguishes the unsupported screenshot from other polls: it says polls by ABP-CVoter, Eedina, TV9 Kannada, C-Daily Tracker, and Lok Pol projected Congress above 100 seats. That does not establish that NDTV published the circulating list, or that the RSS and State Intelligence Bureau conducted the surveys attributed to them. The evidence therefore addresses both the false attribution to NDTV and the unsupported claims about those two organizations, while clarifying that some separate polls did forecast a Congress lead.