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Politics & government fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about politics & government. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

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FACTLYPolitics & government

Visuals of people shouting ‘Resign Modi’ in London after recent IT survey in BBC offices in India

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim links footage of people holding a “Resign Modi” banner and chanting on a London bridge to the Income Tax department’s searches at BBC offices in India in February 2023. FACTLY identifies the footage as showing an earlier protest, not a response to those searches. The review reports that members of the South Asia Solidarity Group demonstrated on Westminster Bridge on 15 August 2021, raising anti-Modi slogans and displaying the banner. It says the group protested over Modi’s alleged involvement in unacceptable practices. The event therefore predates the BBC office searches by roughly a year and a half, contradicting the claim’s suggested connection. FACTLY describes its check as an internet search using relevant keywords, which led it to an extended version of the viral video posted on YouTube by the South Asia Solidarity Group on 15 August 2021. The review also cites the video description as identifying the location and event. Its conclusion is that the video is old and unrelated to the February 2023 searches; the misleading element is the claim that the footage shows a protest prompted by those searches.

YouturnPolitics & government

பிப்ரவரி 8-ம் தேதி 8 கோடி குடும்பங்களுக்கு குழாய் நீர் தருவதாக மோடி கூறுகிறார். பிப்ரவரி 9 ஆம் தேதி, அதே மோடி 11 கோடி குடும்பங்களுக்கு கொடுக்கப்பட்டதாக கூறுகிறார்! மோடி சுயமரியாதை இல்லாத பொய்யர் என்பதில் சந்தேகமில்லை.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

FACTLYPolitics & government

Video clips showing Narendra Modi overstating the numbers of tap water beneficiaries in the country

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns two clips of Narendra Modi’s parliamentary speeches, presented as showing that he raised the number of tap-water beneficiaries from 8 crore to 11 crore within a day. FACTLY examined the speeches in which those figures were stated, rather than treating the numbers as descriptions of the same group or period. It reports that Modi’s 8 February 2023 remarks referred to connections provided under the current government, while his remarks in the Rajya Sabha the following day referred to the total number of households receiving tap water. To check the clips, the review says it searched for relevant keywords and located the full Lok Sabha speech on Sansad TV and the full Rajya Sabha speech. It identifies the relevant passages at 57:31 in the 8 February speech and 13:13 in the 9 February speech. In the first, Modi said that 8 crore families had received tap connections. In the second, he said that only 3 crore families had tap water before his government and that 11 crore households were receiving it at the time. The review therefore treats the figures as covering different scopes, not as a sudden increase in the same count. FACTLY’s conclusion is that the shared video was edited: the 11-crore figure included the 3 crore connections attributed to previous governments before 2014, while the 8-crore figure concerned connections provided under the current government. The excerpt does not detail how the clips were edited, but it provides the full-speech sources, timestamps, and speech passages used to explain why the two figures are not directly comparable.