Fact Check: Video claiming YSRC MLA Pushpa Sreevani criticised her own government is false, she flayed TDP governance
The YSRC has completed 4 years of governance in Andhra Pradesh with YS Jaganmohan Reddy as the chief minister.
Kurupam MLA video
The YSRC has completed 4 years of governance in Andhra Pradesh with YS Jaganmohan Reddy as the chief minister. With elections round the corner in the state, both the ruling party YSRC and the opposition party TDP are busy involved in campaigning.
Meanwhile, a video of YSRC Kurupam MLA Pushpa Sreevani giving a high-pitched speech expressing concern over tribals not receiving proper medical services is being shared by a few social media users with the implication that tribals in Vizianagaram district, under the YSRC rule, are not receiving proper medical services and women and girls are facing difficulties, due to lack of timely medical aid.
The claim in Telugu goes “విజయనగరం జిల్లాలో గిరిజనులకి వైద్య సేవలు అందడం లేదు, బైక్ అంబులెన్సు లు పని చెయ్యట్లేదు, సకాలంలో వైద్య సేవలు అందక ఎందరో బాలికలు, గర్భిణీ మహిళలు చాలా ఇబ్బందులు ఎదురుకుంటూ ప్రాణాలను సైతం పణంగా పెడుతున్నారు అని @PushpaSreevani గారు ఆవేదన వ్యక్తం చేస్తున్నారు... @
In Vizianagaram district, tribals are not receiving medical services, bike ambulances are not working, many girls and pregnant women are facing risk due to lack of timely medical services. @PushpaSreevani expressing her grievance. @vidadalaRajini is this international level medical attention?
Fact Check:
The claim is False. The video of Kurupam MLA Pushpa Sreevani is from the year 2018 when the TDP government was ruling in Andra Pradesh.
When we performed a Google reverse image search of the key frames from the video with the keywords “Kurupam MLA emotional speech”, we found several YouTube videos published on September 5, 2018.
When we searched the social media accounts of MLA Pushpa Sreevani, we found no such video that was published recently.
On her Facebook handle, we found a video of the leader issuing a clarification that the video is an old one and people are using it to make false implications. She shared the video with caption “తెలుగుదేశం వాళ్లు నా పై చేసే
In the video, she explained that in September 2018, 15 tribal girl students were given treatment by making them sit down in a hospital in Saluru, Vizianagaram. All of them were made to sit around a saline-dripping stand and provided treatment. Disturbed over the incident, she criticised the Telugu Desam government. Now, it is being circulated as a recent video to indicate that she is not happy with the YCP governance, even when she belongs to the same party.
rtvlive.com also shared an article that Kurupam MLA Pushpa Sreevani issued a clarification that the viral video in which she is seen criticizing the government for poor medical services to tribals in Vizianagaram is an old one from September 2018.
Hence, the viral video is not recent and the claim that YSRC MLA Pushpa Sreevani is criticizing her own party’s government is False. The viral video dates back to when the TDP government was in rule in 2018.