Fact Check: Viral video showing passengers at a railway station makes FALSE claim about Madigas gathering for MRPS meet
Madiga Reservation Samithi leader Manda Krishna Madiga recently organized a huge meeting “SC Reservation Viswarupa Mahasabha”, on November 11, 2023, which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The PM has announced that a committee would be constituted to chalk out the action plan for empowering the Dalit (SC) communities.
Kalyani Railway station
Madiga Reservation Samithi leader Manda Krishna Madiga recently organized a huge meeting “SC Reservation Viswarupa Mahasabha”, on November 11, 2023, which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The PM has announced that a committee would be constituted to chalk out the action plan for empowering the Dalit (SC) communities.
Meanwhile, a video claiming to be showing people belonging to the Madiga community gathering at a railway station, to travel to Hyderabad from Vijayawada, is in circulation on social media.
Fact Check:
The claim is Misleading. The video was shot at Kalyani Railway station in Kolkata during Durga Puja 2023.
When searched using the keywords Viswarupa Mahasabha, we found the posts by the organisers, which do not show the viral video.
When we performed a Google reverse image search using the key frames extracted from the video, we found that the video was published on an Instagram page named hyper_aaadi on October 25, 2023, with the caption “POV = You are at Kalyani” with hashtag Durga puja.
A longer video was published by a YouTube channel on October 23, 2023, with the title “रेलवे स्टेशन पर लाखों यात्रि
Here is another video showing the crowd at Kalyani Railway station in Kolkata during Durga Puja this year.
Hence, the viral video does not show people traveling to Hyderabad to attend Viswarupa Mahasabha which was organized in Hyderabad on November 11, 2023. It shows crowds at a railway station in Kolkata during Durga Puja in October 2023. The claim is Misleading.