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| - Amid the nationwide political uproar over Union home minister Amit Shah’s statement in Parliament about B R Ambedkar, a nine-second clip of a speech by former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is being shared on social media. In the video, he says, “… We were sitting there.. someone was saying that the person who wrote the Constitution must have also been drunk.” While sharing this clip, it is being claimed that he made this remark about Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar and meant that that he had written the Constitution while being drunk.
BJP MP Manoj Tiwari tweeted the viral video, calling Arvind Kejriwal anti-Dalit and said that this was the true color of the head of the Aam Aadmi Party. (Archived link)
BJP leader Richa Rajpoot tweeted the viral video and wrote that these were Arvind Kejriwal’s views on Baba Saheb Ambedkar. (Archived link)
केजरीवाल जी के बाबा साहब अंबेडकर के लिए विचार pic.twitter.com/Z9aixHUeUd
— Dr. Richa Rajpoot (Lodhi) (@doctorrichabjp) December 22, 2024
BJP supporter Vibhor Anand shared the video and demanded the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal and appealed to people to share this video as much as possible. (Archived link)
Similarly, BJP supporters Jitendra Pratap Singh, Anupam Mishra, West Bengal BJP Mahila Morcha’s social media in-charge Laxmi Singh also shared this clip on social media with the same claim.
Fact Check
Aam Aadmi Party supporter Siddharth replied to a tweet tagging Alt News and several other fact-checking media organizations and said that the viral video was fake. Along with this, he also shared a longer version of the viral video. In this, Arvind Kejriwal says, “During this time I read the constitutions of all the parties. The constitution of Congress says that no Congressman will drink alcohol. So we were sitting there and someone said that the person who wrote the constitution must have been drunk.”
🚨Fake Misleading Video Alert 🚨
Original Video
cc @zoo_bear @AltNews @AltNewsHindi @boomlive_in @IndiaTodayFacts @FactCheckIndia @free_thinker pic.twitter.com/sXHUbnAAct
— Siddharth (@SidKeVichaar) December 23, 2024
Siddharth also shared a YouTube link in his next tweet. It was uploaded on December 3, 2012. According to the information given in the description of the video, this video is from November 25, 2012, when Arvind Kejriwal was addressing a gathering at Rajghat.
In the video, at the 4:20 mark, Kejriwal criticized the constitution of political parties and said that the parties themselves did not believe in their constitutions. In this context, he further said that the constitution of the Congress party said that none of their workers would drink alcohol. And then, he added, ostensibly in jest, that someone told him that the person who had written the constitution of the Congress party must have been drunk himself.
To sum it up, BJP leaders and supporters shared a clipped version of a 12-year-old video of Arvind Kejriwal out of context and falsely claimed that he said Ambedkar had drafted the Constitution while he had been drunk.
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