On July 23, 2022, Sathish Reddy, a member of Telangana Rashtra Samiti, shared a video of outgoing President Ram Nath Kovind’s farewell ceremony. He deliberately released a cropped video showing that PM Modi did not greet the retiring President Ram Nath Kovind with sarcastic comment “When ‘Photograph’ more important than the outgoing President” and tried to manipulate the viewer.
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Sanjay Singh, an Aam Aadmi Party member shared a same edited video. He attempted to convince the viewer that the outgoing President Ram Nath had to endure humiliation during the farewell ceremony.
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Many twitter users like Shyam Meera Singh, Dr Dipin Yadav and Virendra Chaudhary joined the bandwagon and shared the manipulated video.
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The video was posted on several social media platforms. A misleading video was put on the Pratibimba Live Facebook page, an Assamese news outlet with a three lakh-strong viewership.
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Fact Check
After digging into the matter, we found out that the original video posted on Sansad TV YouTube channel. In the video, at the time frame of 7 seconds, it is clearly visible that the PM Modi is greeting outgoing President Ramnath Kovind with folded hands.
Hence, the video shared on Twitter is edited to show that PM Modi did not greet Ramnath Kovind.
| Claim | PM Modi ignored outgoing President Ram Nath Kovind and did not greet him |
| Claimed by | Sathish Reddy, Sanjay Singh, Shyam Meera Singh, DR. Vipin Yadav, Virendra Chaudhary and Pratibimba Live |
| Fact Check | False |
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