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A 17-second video of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath crying after watching the recently released film “The Kashmir Files” has gone viral on social media across India.
What is the Fact ?
We searched for using keywords the tearful scene we found the video of weeping while watching a video was published in website Punjab Kesari.
Yogi Adityanath was reportedly in tears when he attended a martyrs tribute to Deepavali in Gorakhpur in October 2017.
Yogi Adityanath has announced that The Kashmir File will be tax-exempt in Uttar Pradesh as well as Tripura, Gujarat, Haryana and Assam. However, there were no reports or pictures of Yogi Adityanath watching or weeping for the Kashmir Files movie.
Conclusion
Based on our search , the video spread that Yogi Adityanath was crying after watching the movie The Kashmir Files was false. That video can be identified as a video taken in 2017.
