Fact Check: This Ad. Campaign Urging People in Karnataka Not to Vote For BJP Is Edited | Newsmobile

 

A video showing a man at the checkout counter in a store being asked to pay extra for a shopping bag is doing the rounds on social media. Towards the end of the video, a message calling out people to vote against Modi is displayed. Many users have shared the video claiming that BJP has caused inflation in the country, and linked it to the upcoming Karnataka elections.

A Facebook user posted the viral post with a caption: Modi Hatao Desh Bacho Best Ads

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You can check the post here.

FACT CHECK

NewsMobile fact-checked the viral post and found it to be false.

Running a Reverse Image Search of the video keyframes, we identified many posts with a similar claim on several digital platforms. Under one such video in a tweet by an unverified user, we found a quote tweet stating that the original ad is from CEAT. The user also provided a link to the original ad. 

The link in the tweet led us to a YouTube video, titled: Savings at Supermarket – CEAT Fuelsmarrt Tyres, dated June 8, 2017, on the official channel of CEAT Tyres. 

The ad matches exactly with the viral video except for the message, about not voting for BJP or Modi, at the end. Given that the ad was launched in 2017, there is no way it would have been politically linked to the upcoming Karnataka elections. 

Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral post, claiming to show a political campaign video asking people not to vote for BJP, is false.

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This image of various opinion polls predicting Congress victory in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly Elections is not published by NDTV

 

A screenshot with a list of opinion poll predictions purportedly published by ‘NDTV’ is being shared widely claiming that major surveys have unanimously predicted a humongous victory to Congress in the upcoming Karnataka Elections 2023. The post claims that even internal surveys conducted by the RSS and the State Intelligence Bureau have predicted Congress securing majority seats over BJP in the 2023 Karnataka Assembly Elections. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.

When we searched to check whether NDTV published any such list in the wake of upcoming Karnataka Assembly Elections scheduled to be held on 10 May 2023, we could not find any on NDTV’s official Twitter and other social media handles. NDTV in the latest article reported that the NDTV Lokniti-CSDS Survey found 40 percent of the people in state preferring Siddaramaiah to be the next Chief Minister of Karnataka and 22 percent of people wish to see Basavaraj Bommai back in the Chief Minister’s position.  

After the screenshot went viral on social media, NDTV published a tweet stating-“False posts on NDTV Poll of Poll tracker for Karnataka, being widely circulated, are misleading.” NDTV in the tweet clarified that real ‘Poll of Exit Polls’ will be announced on 10 May 2023 evening after the completion of elections in Karnataka.

While opinion polls published by ‘ABP-CVoter’, ‘Eedina’, ‘TV9 Kannada’, ‘C-Daily Tracker’ and ‘Lok Pol’ have projected Congress securing more than 100 seats and forming government in Karnataka, there is no evidence to confirm that RSS and State Intelligence Bureau had conducted internal surveys and they too predicted a Congress victory in the Karnataka Elections 2023.

To sum it up, this screenshot with a list of opinion poll predictions for the upcoming Karnataka Elections 2023 is not published by NDTV.

 

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