Fact Check: Did Rahul Gandhi sleep again in Parliament? Know the truth of viral claims

New Delhi: The winter session of Parliament has started and there is ruckus in both the houses every day. Meanwhile, a video of Lok Sabha went viral on social media yesterday. In which opposition leader Rahul Gandhi is seen sleeping during the Lok Sabha proceedings. This video has been shared on many X accounts since yesterday.

What was claimed?

A user named @VenkateshBung on social media claimed that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is sleeping peacefully in Parliament after the party was wiped out in Haryana and Maharashtra. With this caption the user had shared the video of Rahul Gandhi sleeping in the Lok Sabha.

Another user @ManojSr60583090 also posted this video and wrote, ‘A burden on the country, soya soya sa khoya khoya sa.

@bhatiyogita1002 on X also posted a video claiming that Rahul Gandhi fell asleep during the proceedings in Parliament. he/she wrote in the caption – Country’s storm, Rahul Gandhi sleeping in Parliament.

The truth came out in the investigation

When Sajjag’s team started investigating all these claims made on X, all these claims were proved to be false. The alert team took out key frames of the video and checked it with the reverse image and found many other Video meet. Which was in the month of August this year.

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When Sajjag’s team proceeded with its investigation, many pictures and reports were found on Google. According to whom this incident took place on 8th August. When Union Minister Kiren Rijiju was presenting the Waqf Board Amendment Bill in the Parliament, Rahul Gandhi was sleeping. We also found several tweets from August 8 related to this video.

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conclusion: A video of Rahul Gandhi sleeping in Parliament is being shared on social media. However, during Sajjak’s investigation, this video was found to be old. This is now being shared with misleading claims.