Fact Check: Who gave a reward of Rs 5 lakh to the person who cut Amit Shah’s kite, the truth will blow your senses

New Delhi: The festival of Makar Sankranti was celebrated across the country on Tuesday. In the ongoing Mahakumbh in Prayagraj, UP, where crores of devotees took a dip in the Sangam, people also flew kites in different parts of the country. Union Home Minister Amit Shah reached Ahmedabad on the occasion of Makar Sankranti and celebrated the festival of Uttarayan with his/her family. During this time, he/she also enjoyed kite flying with his/her family and its video went viral on social media. At the same time, a claim was also made on social media regarding Amit Shah’s kite flying. Actually, some internet users shared the video of Amit Shah flying a kite on social media and wrote along with this video that the boy who cut Amit Shah’s kite was given a reward of Rs 5 lakh. During investigation by the alert team, this claim was found to be misleading.

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What is the claim on social media?

A video of Amit Shah flying a kite was shared on X (Twitter) with a handle named Deepak Sharma and it was written, ‘A businessman from Gujarat gave a reward of Rs 5 lakh to the one who cut Mota Bhai’s kite. This was amazing… the guy was standing with Mota Bhai and is giving the reward to the opposition party. This post of Deepak Sharma was reposted by 220 people. See his/her tweet-

The same video was also posted from the handle Alok Chikku and it was written along with it, ‘People clap and applaud after seeing the height. Today Amit Shah was flying a kite. A small child who was flying a kite right in front of him/her cut Shah’s kite. According to the law, clapping should be done for the child but no, everyone clapped for Shah to please the master. See post-

What is the truth of this video?

To know the truth of this video and the claims being made with it, the Vigilant team first searched the screen shot of the video with the help of Google Lens. In the search results, we found some X handles from which this video was posted in January 2024. This clearly means that the viral video is old, which is being shared at this time. Watch that old video here-

Now it was time to investigate Amit Shah’s claim of giving a reward of Rs 5 lakh to the boy who cut the kite. To know the truth of this claim, we contacted our colleague and in-charge of Gujarat section of presswire18 Times Online. Achalendra Katiyar Contacted. he/she told that there is no truth of any kind in the matter of giving a reward of Rs 5 lakh.

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Achalendra told that Amit Shah wished everyone a happy Makar Sankranti festival. On this occasion, he/she also enjoyed kite flying on the rooftop of a society in Ahmedabad. In the beginning a young man cut Amit Shah’s kite. But, after this he/she cut two kites back-to-back. In this way Amit Shah’s score was 2-1.

conclusion

While sharing a video of Amit Shah’s kite flying on social media, it is being claimed that a boy cut his/her kite and in return a businessman gave him/her a reward of Rs 5 lakh. During the investigation by the Vigilant team, this video was found to be old and Amit Shah’s statement that a reward of Rs 5 lakh would be given to the kite cutter turned out to be a lie.