Edited video of Rahul Gandhi talking about dosa goes viral!
Claim
When you bring a buffoon like Rahul Gandhi to an election campaign, this is what you will get to hear.
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Explanation
The internet is flooded with countless photos and videos from both parties making slurs about one another as the Lok Sabha elections draw near.
In this instance, Congressman Rahul Gandhi can be seen speaking into a microphone in a 16-second video. “You tell the people of Tamil Nadu that you like dosas and at the same time you say, you like dosa, you might like vadas also,” he is heard saying in the clip before it ends. This post is shared stating, “When you bring a buffoon like Rahul Gandhi to an election campaign, this is what you will get to hear.” You can view a similar claim post here.
When you bring a buffoon like Rahul Gandhi to an election campaign, this is what you will get to hear. https://t.co/WICcKjmbr6
— BVK (@Bvkumar2020) April 13, 2024
What’s the truth?
We started our analysis with relevant keywords and this led us to a YouTube video live-streamed by the M.K. Stalin channel.
The video is lengthy with the caption “Massive #Elections2024 campaign rally in Coimbatore with @RahulGandhi #Vote4INDIA” and was posted on April 13, 2024.
In the video, Rahul Gandhi speaks for more than 35 minutes. DMK’s Trichy Siva has translated his speech into Tamil
When we heard the whole video around the timestamp of 46 minutes we can hear the viral claim segment. Here we can hear him saying about Modi, “You come here and tell the Tamil Nadu people that you like dosa and then insult them, and then you attack their culture, their history, and their language.”
Then he continues to add that “at the same time you said you like dosa and Tamil farmers are starving, Tamil youth are unemployed, you destroy small and medium industry by carrying out demonetization and a flawed GST and for the first time in Indian history farmer’s are paying tax.”
Lastly, Rahul says, “Modi ji you might like dosa, you might like vada also, but that is not the issue here. Nobody cares that you like dosa or vada. We care whether you like the Tamil language. We care whether you respect Tamil history. And we care for what you were doing for the future of this country and Tamil Nadu.”
Then Rahul went on to talk about the electoral scam and his relationship with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin.
From the above details, it’s clear that the viral claim video is an edited clip circulated with false narratives mocking Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
Conclusion:
A video circulating of Rahul Gandhi talking about dosa is being modified and misrepresented. In reality, Rahul Gandhi was mocking Modi for saying that he liked Tamil Nadu and then going back to Delhi and working against the country’s diversity.
