Vishvas News in its investigation has found that the claim made about the viral video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Garba is false. The person seen in the video is not PM Modi but his lookalike Vikas Mahante. This Vikas Mahante video is from the Diwali fair held on November 5-6 in London, which people are now sharing as PM Modi’s.
New Delhi (Vishvas News). A video of a person doing Garba dressed as PM Modi is going viral on social media. By sharing this video, it is claimed that the person seen in the video is Prime Minister Narendra Modi who can be seen performing garba.
Vishvas News in its investigation found the viral claim to be false. The person seen in the viral video is not PM Modi but his counterpart Vikas Mahante. This Vikas Mahante video is from the Diwali fair held on November 5-6 in London, which people are now sharing as PM Modi’s.
What goes viral?
Facebook user By Pradeep Kumar Yadav (archive version While sharing the viral video, the caption reads, “Very happy to see Modi ji doing Garba…!
Who says Modi ji keeps distance from women..!
Who spreads wrong things…!”
X user ‘Arun Subramanian’ also shared this claim, believing it to be true.
an investigation
To investigate the viral video, we watched the video closely. Many people have written in the comments of the video that the face seen in the video is not PM Modi.
Continuing the investigation, we extracted key frames from the video. We can get information related to the video “Prof” Found on the account of a user named X. By sharing the screenshot of the video, the user has identified the person seen in the video as Vikas Mahante. Who is a businessman turned actor and looks like Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Similarly, another user ‘Bharat Kaushik’ too screenshot Share. Which is similar to the scene seen in the viral video. Vikas Mahante’s name can be clearly seen in the screenshot.
Further in the investigation, we searched Vikas Mahante’s social media regarding the video. We found an original video similar to the video uploaded on November 08, 2023. This Video And many of the scenes in the viral social media video are similar. According to the information provided with the post, “This video is from the Diwali Fair organized in London.”
We searched for Vikas Mahante on Google. Search I did. We got it,” Vikas Mahante lives in Mumbai’s Malad area. Vikas was first a businessman who later became an actor. He got a lot of recognition for his looks as Prime Minister Modi. He has played the role of Prime Minister Modi in many films. Vikas Mahante has also campaigned for some BJP elections.
For more information, we contacted Atul Pareek, a member of Vikas Mahante’s PR team. Atul told us that the viral video is of Vikas Mahante and is a video from the Diwali fair held on November 5-6 in London.
This erroneous post was shared by many people, one of whom is Facebook user Pradeep Kumar Yadav, whose post we investigated. More than 6 thousand people follow the user on Facebook. According to the information given in the profile, the user is a resident of Delhi.
conclusion:
Vishvas News in its investigation has found that the claim made about the viral video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Garba is false. The person seen in the video is not PM Modi but his lookalike Vikas Mahante. This Vikas Mahante video is from the Diwali fair held on November 5-6 in London, which people are now sharing as PM Modi’s.
- View claim: The person seen doing Garba in the video is PM Modi.
- Requested by: Facebook User – Pradeep Kumar Yadav
- Fact Check: A lie
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