Fact Check: Jaganmohan Reddy did not speak in a shriek voice during poll campaign
Andhra Pradesh is going for Assembly polls simultaneously with Lok Sabha Elections in the next few days. Elections to the 175 Assembly seats and 25 Lok Sabha seats will be held in the fourth phase of the general elections 2024 on May 13
Claim :
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy spoke with a shrieky voice during election campaigning to gain people’s sympathyFact :
Jaganmohan Reddy did not use a shrieky voice during campaigning for elections, the original voice has been replaced with a fabricated voice to make a false claim
Andhra Pradesh is going for Assembly polls simultaneously with Lok Sabha Elections in the next few days. Elections to the 175 Assembly seats and 25 Lok Sabha seats will be held in the fourth phase of the general elections 2024 on May 13. In 2019, Jagan Reddy’s YSR Congress Party swept the Assembly polls winning 151 seats. The party also won 22 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state in the 2019 general elections. The opposition parties including TDP, BJP, and Janasena formed an alliance for this election to give tough competition to the ruling YSRC.
Amidst this, a video of AP CM Jaganmohan Reddy speaking with a shrieky voice during a public meeting while campaigning is going viral with the claim that he is crying during his speech to gain the sympathy of the public. In the viral video, AP CM is heard saying ‘It is doubtful that the elections will be conducted smoothly. They are changing the officials as they wish, and poor people are not getting the necessary benefits. All this is happening to stop me from coming to power again” in Telugu.
Fact Check:
The claim is False. The original video does not have any such audio of Jagan speaking in a shrieky voice. His voice was normal.
When we extracted keyframes from the video and searched them using Google reverse image search, we found that it showed the public meeting conducted by YSRC party in Machilipatnam. In the viral video, we can see the YSRC party MLA candidate contesting from Machilipatnam – Perni Kittu.
We found a few YouTube videos that published Jagan’s speech during his campaign in Machilipatnam. In a video published on Sakshi TV Live, we found a video where he introduces the MLA candidate as Perni Kittu.
A longer video was published by KKR media with the title in Telugu “సీఎం శ్రీ వైయస్ జగన్ మచిలీపట్నం మీటింగ్ మచిలీపట్నం సిద్ధం!”. The 13-minute video does not contain the viral speech that is going viral.
Upon further search, we found a live stream video of the public meeting conducted by YSRCP in Machilipatnam published by Sakshi TV Live on May 6, 2024. The title of the video goes: AP CM YS Jagan Public meeting at Machilipatnam I AP elections 2024 I Krishna District. We could not find the viral part in the 56-minute-long original video.
The YouTube channel named YS Jagan Mohan Reddy also published a long video of the meeting where we can hear Jagan speaking normally and taking a dig against the opposition leaders and praising his party candidate. He also talks about the false news spread by some TV channels.
Even the news articles which reported about the meeting did not publish any such incident. Here is the Telugu news report link published on the HMTV website.
Hence, the viral video showing YS Jaganmohan Reddy giving the speech in a shrieky voice so as to gain sympathy from the public is not real. A fabricated audio has been added to the video from the Jagan’s election campaign in Machilipatnam, replacing the original audio. The claim is False.
