New Delhi (Vishvas News). By-elections were held for Wayanad and Nanded Lok Sabha seats along with the results of Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections. In a post viral on social media regarding Wayanad, it is being claimed that Kerala Congress media in-charge ‘Mohammad Mujahid Islam’ allegedly ‘sacrificed’ a cow for Priyanka Gandhi’s victory. In the post shared with this claim, a person can be seen shooting cattle.
Vishvas News found this claim to be false in its investigation. The viral video has no connection with the victory of Kerala Congress or Priyanka Gandhi. Also, there is no official named ‘Mohammed Mujahid Islam’ in Kerala Congress. This video had gone viral on social media with the claim that an unknown person from the Kuki community in Manipur had shot a cow, due to which PETA India had filed a complaint regarding the incident with the cyber police of Manipur Police in a case of animal cruelty.
What is viral?
Social media user ‘Sunil Rai’ went viral Video (archive Link) while posting, it is written, “Congress Party has crossed the pinnacle of hatred towards Hindus. The name of this scoundrel is Mohammad Mujahid Islam and he is the media in-charge of Kerala Congress. The height of his hatred towards Hindus is that for the victory of Priyanka Gandhi, he sacrificed a cow by shooting him. *Share this video so much that the word reaches the Home Ministry of India and he gets arrested. *For the sake of secular Hindu people. The character of the mothers must be bad, they must have been blackened by a Muslim, that is why they must have been born, and are supporting the Congress.”
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Many others on different platforms of social media users Has shared this video with similar and similar claims.
investigation
The person who shot the cow in the viral video has been identified as ‘Mohammed Mujahid Islam’, media in-charge of Kerala Congress. To confirm this claim, we contacted the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC). website Checked. We did not find any information about any person with such name (‘Mohammed Mujahid Islam’) on the website.
The names of a total of 26 office bearers are mentioned on the website of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee, in which there is no mention of the person named ‘Mohammed Mujahid Islam’.
We contacted Kerala Congress Vice President VP Sajindran regarding this claim and he confirmed, “There is no official named Mohammed Mujahid Islam in Kerala Congress.”
After this we found the original source of the viral video. On reverse image searching the key frames of the video, we found a post shared by a user named Sunanda Roy from the official According to the information given in the post, the person who shot the cattle belongs to the Kuki community.
Responding to his post, PETA India wrote, “PETA India’s Cruelty Response Team is working with the Cyber Crime Cell of Manipur Police to confirm the location of the incident. “Once the place of the incident is confirmed, we will lodge an FIR with the concerned district police and take necessary action.”
many others Report We got information about this incident in a similar context. It is clear from our investigation that the incident of shooting of cattle is not related to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and her Lok Sabha seat Wayanad, nor is the accused seen in it any official of Kerala Congress.
We contacted the Kerala Congress official for information about the media in-charge of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee. Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee General Secretary Advocate Deepti Mary Varghese, while speaking to Vishvas News, refuted the viral claim and said, “She is the official media in-charge of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee.”
Those sharing viral posts with fake claims user Has described himself as a digital creator in his profile.
It is noteworthy that in the recently held by-elections (Wayanad and Nanded), Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was elected from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat. Victory Has been found. Earlier, Rahul Gandhi was the MP from this seat, but he resigned from this seat, keeping Rae Bareli seat with him, after which by-election was held here and Congress made Priyanka Gandhi Vadra its candidate from this seat.
From this seat, Priyanka Gandhi defeated her nearest rival and Communist Party of India candidate by more than four lakh votes. Fact check reports on other viral claims related to the recently concluded Assembly elections and other by-elections have been published by Vishvas News Elections. Section Can be read in.
Conclusion: Kerala Congress official ‘Mohammad Mujahid Islam”s claim of sacrificing cow for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s victory is fake. Neither has any such incident happened in Kerala nor is there any official named ‘Mohammed Mujahid Islam’ in Kerala Congress. The media in-charge of Kerala Congress is Deepti Mary Varghese, who is also the general secretary of the state Congress. A video is going viral on social media with the claim of a person from Kuki community killing a cow in Manipur.
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