The crowd gathered at Akhilesh Yadav’s rally is not from Azamgarh but from Brazil, viral claim on social media is fake

New Delhi: The elections are now in their final phase, but videos and photos of politicians are being shared on social media after being edited. One such video is of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. The viral video claims that a huge crowd has gathered at Akhilesh Yadav’s rally in Azamgarh and people are loving him/her a lot. Boom Fact Check found in its investigation that the claim is completely fake and this video is from the city of Feira de Santana in Bahia, Brazil. A fair was organized here. Voting was on 25 May in Azamgarh.What is the viral video?
one on instagram User While sharing the video, he/she wrote that respected national president Akhilesh Yadav brother, the love and trust of the people of Azamgarh is making India alliance win. Archive Link You can see it here. A user shared the video on YouTube and said that Pawan Singh This claim was later found to be fake. It had no connection with any rally of Akhilesh Yadav or Pawan Yadav.

Fact Check
On doing a reverse image search of the key frames of the video, we found the same video posted on 19 April 2024 from the Instagram handle of Brazilian singer Bel Marques. The caption of the video in Portuguese language mentioned that it was an event named ‘Micareta de Feira de Santana’ in Bahia, Brazil. Taking a hint from here, we started searching more about ‘Micareta de Feira de Santana’. With the help of keyword search, we found the name of Micareta de Feira Website But we have a Report Photos matching the viral video were found in this report.

In this Portuguese language report, it was told that the Micareta de Feira 2024 event started on 17 April and ended on 22 April. During this time about 2 million people participated in it. Website According to, Micareta de Feira is Brazil’s first and largest off-season carnival (fair). It was started in 1937 by some youths under the leadership of Menaka Ferreira. Apart from this, we also found this video on the official Instagram handle of Micareta de Feira. From which it is clear that the video of the carnival held in Bahia, Brazil is being shared with the claim of Akhilesh Yadav’s rally and Pawan Singh’s rally.

(This story was originally published by Boom And republished by NBT as part of Shakti Collective.)