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Fact Check: PM Modi did not sing the bhajan in the viral video

A video having a compilation of a few images and a bhajan in the background is going viral with the claim that the bhajan heard in the background was sung by Indian PM Narendra Modi.

By 21 March 2023 7:27 AM GMT
Fact Check: PM Modi did not sing the bhajan in the viral video

A video having a compilation of a few images and a bhajan in the background is going viral with the claim that the bhajan heard in the background was sung by Indian PM Narendra Modi.

The video is shared with the caption “Guess who is singing this Ram Bhajan?? It is none other than the Prime Minister of our country, Hon'ble Shri Narendra Modi ji. Blessed is the country where the Prime Minister is the one who knows and understands such religious faith and culture….It is a matter of great pride.”

This claim was viral in 2022 also.

Fact check:

The claim that the singer of the bhajan in the video is Indian PM Modi is false. The singer of the bhajan is Prembhushanji Maharaj.

When listening to the bhajan carefully, we found the words as “nar sharir anmol re prani”. When searching using these keywords, we found several YouTube videos relating to this bhajan.

One of these videos with the same visuals as the viral video is also found here. Though the video has no name of the artist who sang the song, one of the comments on this video states that the bhajan was sung by Prembhushanji Maharaj.

We also found another video by a YouTube channel named ‘Nirankar Bhakti’ which states that the original song was sung by Pujya Prembhushanji Maharaj.

By searching with his name along with the words from bhajan, we found the original video published on the YouTube channel Pujya Prembhushanji Maharaj with the title “Ram Naam eke Sabun se.. Narayan mil Jayega *Pujya Prembhushanji Maharaj* Bhajan”. This video was published in March 2021.

Therefore, the bhajan heard in the viral video was sung by Prembhushanji Maharaj but not PM Modi. The claim is false.

Claim :   Modi sang Bhajan heard in the viral video
Claimed By :  Twitter Users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Network
Claim Source :  Twitter
Fact Check :  False
News Summary - PM Modi did not sing the bhajan in the viral video
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Satya Priya BN

A motivated professional with a zeal to learn with more than 7 years of experience as a Content and Digital manager in Press, Electronic, and Digital media. Fact checker with more than 4 years of experience in fact checking. Trained by Google News Initiative India Training Network. Fact check trainer, Factshala Trainer, BBC Young Reporter India Trainer and also participated in Trauma literacy training. Worked in Newsmeter.in as a Fact Check Lead from September 2019 to October 2021. Worked as a Freelance Senior Researcher with BBC World Service, Investigations Unit from January 2022 to Aril 2022 and also as Freelance Fact Checker for Newsmeter.in Also Conducting workshops on Fact Checking for various communities including Media students etc. Conducted fact checking workshops for school students as part of pilot project – BBC Young Reporter India in the past few months. Participated in Workshop on Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters conducted by US Consulate General and Osmania University in 2022 as Trainer. Trained the journalists on several topics of Fact checking such as Types of misinformation, Tools and Techniques of photo and video verification, Geolocation, writing fact checks, Health fact checking etc. Co-authored the first Fact check manual- “How to write Fact-checks” in Telugu language as part of the workshop. Presently working as Fact check lead in Telugupost.com.
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