Fact Check: Claim of empty chairs at PM Modi’s ‘Hala Modi’ event is misleading, sports complex was packed

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has returned to Delhi after a two-day visit, but his/her visit to Kuwait is still being discussed. Some users are sharing a video on social media. While sharing this video in which PM Modi’s voice is heard, it was claimed that all the chairs were lying empty in PM Modi’s program held in Kuwait.

What are the claims of the users?

An ex-user named @BPPDELNP on social media, while sharing the video of empty chairs at the function, wrote – Lakhs of people at Modi ji’s program in Kuwait? Viral video on social media, all the chairs are lying empty!

While sharing the video of empty chairs, a user named @KoYiKkoDaNnS also wrote – PM Modi’s event in Kuwait.

What did the investigation find?

Users on social media claimed that all the chairs were lying vacant at PM Modi’s event in Kuwait. However, during Sajjak’s investigation, this claim turned out to be completely false. PM Modi addressed Indian expatriates at the Hala Modi event in Kuwait. Which was also covered by many video houses. It can be clearly seen in those videos that a crowd of people had come to the event to listen to PM Modi.

First of all to the alert team TIMES NOW presswire18 Found a video on YouTube channel. In this 11-minute video, PM Modi is seen addressing Indian immigrants. At 9 minutes 35 seconds in the video, it can be seen that there is no empty space anywhere in PM Modi’s ‘Hala Modi’ program.

Along with this, many ex-posts of the Prime Minister were found in which the entire place was seen packed.
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Watch the video uploaded on PMO India’s YouTube channel.

Along with this, when Sajjag’s team started scanning the pictures of this program of PM Modi. After which the team got many pictures of news agency ANI. In which it can be seen that in that event, PM Modi did not even have space to set foot in the sports complex.
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conclusion: PM Modi’s claim of empty chairs at Hala Modi event on social media is misleading. There was a packed crowd at PM Modi’s event.