Fact Check: Did Rahul Gandhi really break 140 coconuts in 1 minute? Know the truth of viral video

New Delhi: The ongoing winter session of Parliament may have ended but the incident of scuffle that took place in the premises during the last days of that session is still in discussion. In fact, BJP MP Pratap Sarangi got injured in the scuffle that took place in the Parliament complex on Thursday and he/she has blamed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for this. After which a series of allegations and counter-allegations has started between BJP and Congress. Meanwhile, a video is going viral on social media. While sharing this, Rahul Gandhi can be seen breaking 140 coconuts in a few seconds. Users are sharing this video indiscriminately on social media. Let’s know the truth of this video

What are the claims of the users?

While sharing the video of Rahul Gandhi breaking 140 coconuts in a few seconds, an Instagram user named @pradeep.pk51987 wrote – If there is no push then he/she is in the hospital.
there one Facebook User Pooja Sharma has also shared the same video in a group related to Congress.

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What is the truth of the viral video?

Sajjak’s team tried to find out the truth of this viral video. For that, first of all the team searched the keyword of Rahul Gandhi breaking coconuts on Google. However, nothing related to this was found on Google. After that, Sajjag’s team extracted the keyframes of the video and checked it through reverse image on Google. After which another video was found on Google. Which was shared by a Facebook user named Deepak Ahluwalia only 18 hours ago. However, in this also Rahul Gandhi was seen plucking the coconut.

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After that some other videos were also found. In which the person recording with the camera behind and the crowd are the same but the people breaking the coconut were changing. watch video

Then we found another video on YouTube. Everything in that too was like the viral video but only the person breaking the coconut was changed.

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Now it was not possible for this to happen in all the videos. That means there was some tampering with the video. During the investigation, the team noticed a word written on the video. It is written there Viggle.ai i.e. this video was made with the help of AI. Now it became clear that whether it was Rahul Gandhi’s video or this video, both were edited with the help of AI.

After that, Sajjag’s team started the mission to find the original video. This seemed to be a video of some kind of record being made, so Sajjag’s team searched the record of coconut breaking on Google. After that a news report was found on Google. Of Tamil Samayam Report According to this, a young man broke 140 coconuts in 25 seconds. This video seemed to match exactly with the viral video of Rahul Gandhi.

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The background in both the photos is exactly the same and both have plucked 140 coconuts. In such a situation, the viral video of Rahul Gandhi was edited from this video. After that, Sajag’s team found a video on the YouTube channel of Guinness World Records on 19 June 2017. In which it was told that Abhishek P. Dominic of Kerala in India can break 122 coconuts in a minute with his/her hands!

Along with this, Sajjag’s team got an opportunity from NDTV. Report Also found. In which it was told that Abhish P Dominic, a resident of Kerala, broke several coconuts simultaneously with his/her hands. This feat of Abhish has been recorded in the Guinness World Records.

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conclusion: The viral video of Rahul Gandhi breaking a coconut is just a hoax. That video has been edited with the help of AI. The original viral video is of Abhish P Dominic of Kerala, who made the world record in 2017.