Fact Check: Video claiming Telangana farmers suffered heavy loss due to recent rains is misleading
Untimely rains led to crop loss in Telangana. Farmers suffered heavy losses due to the rains. According to the officials, crop in thousands of acres was damaged in the Nizamabad, Suryapet, Adilabad and other districts.
Untimely rains led to crop loss in Telangana. Farmers suffered heavy losses due to the rains. According to the officials, crop in thousands of acres was damaged in the Nizamabad, Suryapet, Adilabad and other districts.
Meanwhile, a Twitter account shared a video showing the pitiful state of a farmer after his crop was soaked and damaged in the rain. The video was shared with a claim “Huge loss for Telangana farmers due to monstrous thunderstorms” and some other Twitter accounts were also tagged to it.
This video was shared with the caption: “రైతన్న దుఃఖం రాష్ట్రనికి మంచిది కాదు”, meaning ‘Farmer’s grief is not good for the state’.
Fact Check:
The claim is misleading. Though a lot of crops were damaged in Telangana due to untimely rains, the video seen is not original, it is part of a short film published on YouTube.
The viral video was shared by several persons in November 2021, but when Revanth Reddy, Telangana Congress leader posted the images of him visiting the farmers who lost their crops due to rains in November 2021 on Twitter, a person named Pasula Sudhakar shared a YouTube video named ‘Raitanna Shokam’.
When we clicked on the YouTube link, we found the short film published in April 2020 by the YouTube channel named PS Creations. The title of the video is “Pasula Sudhakar II Raithanna Shokam II emotional short film”. The title clearly mentions that the video posted is a short film.
The viral bit from the short film was also shared by this YouTube channel as a reel with caption ‘రాళ్ళవాన పడి రైతన్న ఎక్కెక్కి ఏడుస్తున్నాడు చేతికొచ్చిన పంట ఆగమైపోయె’ on April 26, 2023.
The claim was also debunked by Fact Check Telangana.
Hence, the video shared is part of a short film published on a YouTube channel 3 years ago and does not show farmers suffering loss due to recent rains in Telangana. The claim is misleading.