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TV9 Network Viral Graphic Showing Congress Winning 67 Seats in Telangana is Fake

32.6 million Telangana voters will decide the destiny of 2,290 candidates running for 119 assembly seats today. Results for Telangana along with Mizoram, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, will be released on December 3. Meanwhile, the Congress has been continuously spreading a fake narrative online about gaining a majority of Telangana. After circulating the fake Intelligence Bureau (IB) report and NDTV survey predicting elections results, another graphic of TV9 Network predicting the results is being circulated by Congress and its supporters. They are disseminating a graphic claiming that TV9 network releases summary of Satta Bazaar predictions for Telangana which confirms Congress is winning 67 seats.

The X handles who have taken part in disseminating the graphic which is supposedly by TV9 Network are Anshuman Sail Nehru (Archived link), Riyaz (Archived link), Classic Mojito (Archived link), Shweta Soni (Archived link), Jharkhand Congress Sevadal (Archived link), Sourav Kundu (Archived link), Manisha Tiwari (Archived link), and Rahul Gandhi Admirer (Archived link).

Also Read: Congress Supporters Share Fake On-Ground Assessment Report by IB Ahead of Telangana Election

Fact Check

In our fact check research, we conducted a keyword search for “TV9 network releases summary of Satta Bazaar predictions for Telangana” but could not find any article.

Moreover, we scrutinized the X handle of TV9 Network and found a tweet (Archived link) by TV9 Telugu where they have called the viral claim fake. The tweet says, “Telangana elections : Fake News Alert: fake election pre poll survey in the name of TV9 Sattabazar is not by Tv9.”

Hence, to sum up, the graphic going viral is fake.

ClaimTV9 network releases summary of Satta Bazaar predictions for Telangana which confirms Congress is winning 67 seats.
Claimed byAnshuman Sail Nehru, Riyaz, Classic Mojito, Shweta Soni, Jharkhand Congress Sevadal, Sourav Kundu, Manisha Tiwari, and Rahul Gandhi Admirer
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Also Read: Viral Claim “NDTV Poll Confirms Congress Win in Telangana” is Fake

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