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India Today Fact Check found that the video is not from the Prime Minister's Jamnagar rally. It is from a different rally in Pune, Maharashtra.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is not from Jamnagar but from Pune, Maharashtra, where Modi addressed a rally on April 29.
As Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party leaders continue to campaign ahead of the third phase of the Lok Sabha polls, a video going viral purports to show rows and rows of empty seats at the prime minister’s rally in Jamnagar, Gujarat. The video, recorded in the evening, showed several people leaving the venue while PM Modi spoke.
One Facebook post read, "Gujarat Model. A crowd of lakhs gathered at Modiji's rally to see him. The chairs remained empty, but Modiji finished his work and left. Modiji, maybe the people need more money to attend the rally. Lakhs of people gathered to listen to Modi ji's speech in Jamnagar, Gujarat. See how the crowd is jam-packed!” This clip was also shared with similar claims in Hindi. The archive of such a post can be seen here.
India Today Fact Check has found that the video is not from the Prime Minister's Jamnagar rally. It is from Pune, Maharashtra.
Our Probe
We found a video of Modi's Jamnagar rally uploaded to his official YouTube channel. Streamed on May 2, 2024, it showed the PM was wearing a golden turban and a grey jacket.
In the viral video, however, Modi's turban was red and his jacket sky blue. The Jamnagar rally also took place in the daytime. But the viral video showed the evening sky, clearly suggesting that it was from the same rally.
Subsequently, a reverse search of keyframes from the viral video led us to the same clip shared on X on April 30. The post noted that this rally was from Pune, Maharashtra.
The Prime Minister's official YouTube channel featured the video of his address in Pune on April 29, where he could be seen wearing a red turban and a sky-blue jacket, similar to the viral video.
A comparison between this and the viral clip made it clear that it was from Pune. We noticed the same tents and LED projector screens positioned at the exact spots in both.
Rohit Pawar, the Nationalist Congress Party MLA from Karjat-Jamkhed also shared another video of this rally, where people can be seen leaving their seats while the PM spoke.
Therefore, it is clear that the viral video is from neither Jamnagar nor Gujarat but from Pune, Maharashtra.
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