What is claim on social media?
By sharing the video on X, a person named Jitendra Pratap Singh has written, ‘MLA Ramakant Yadav, the big leader of Samajwadi Party, is saying that Holi should not be celebrated. I refuse people to celebrate Holi, this is not our festival. And when the results come, then the same spairy chest says that there is a setting in EVM. Now think how much the Samajwadi Party hates Hinduism, Hindu festivals.
This post has been posted by 644 people on social media. Watch tweet-
What is the truth of the video?
To find out the truth of this video shared on social media, we first searched its keframe with the help of Google lens. In the investigation here, we got a tweet made on 19 March 2022, in which the same video was shared with the same claim from the X handle named Gaurish Bansal, which is currently being claimed. See that tweet-
Now we went to Google for further investigation and searched this news with the concerned keyword. Here we found links to some news, which confirmed that Ramakant Yadav made this statement three years ago.
Found in search, News of Amar Ujala of 19 March 2022 According to, ‘Ramakant Yadav, SP MLA from Phulpur Powai assembly constituency of Azamgarh, gave a controversial statement about the festival of Holi. Ramakant Yadav has said that he/she himself does not celebrate Holi and refuses others to celebrate this festival. he/she has appealed to the people to celebrate Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar’s birth anniversary. he/she has given many controversial statements earlier also.
This news related to Ramakant Yadav’s statement Dainik Bhaskar, Till today And Hindustan News website But also got it.
conclusion
A video of Samajwadi Party leader Ramakant Yadav has been shared misleading on social media. This video of Ramakant Yadav is three years old. Recently, he/she has not made any such statement.
