Fact Check: Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh have been part of BJP’s Margdarshak Mandal since 2014, not after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections
The claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh were included in the Margdarshak Mandal after the results of Lok Sabha elections 24 are false. Modi and Singh have been members of the Margdarshak Mandal since 2014, which was formed to guide the party.
- By: Abhishek Parashar
- Published: Jun 17, 2024 at 03:09 PM
New Delhi (Visvas News). A viral post on social media about Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has expanded the Margdarshak Mandal and included Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh in it. Modi is serving his third consecutive term as prime minister in the new government while Singh too retained his previous portfolio of Defence.
Vishvas News, in its investigation found this claim to be misleading. Modi and Singh have been a part of the BJP’s Margdarshak Mandal (Guidance Board) since 2014. In 2014, the then BJP President Amit Shah had announced the inclusion of Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh in it to guide the party’s activities. Apart from them, the other three members included senior leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi. The three had been party presidents in the past.
What is in the viral post?
Social media user (archived link) ‘Dharmendra Panchal’ shared the viral post and wrote, “BJP’s Guidance Board expanded, PM Modi and Rajnath included.”
This claim (archived link) has also been shared from the official X handle of Kerala Congress.
Many other users on different social media platforms have shared this post with similar and identical claims.
investigation
To verify the claim made in the viral post, we checked the official website of BJP. On the website, we found information about the Margdarshak Mandal, which currently includes Narendra Modi (Prime Minister, India), LK Advani, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi and Rajnath Singh (Cabinet Minister, Government of India).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh are included in the BJP’s Guidance Board. However, we did not find information here as to when changes were made in this web page. To check this, we took the help of the Wayback Machine tool. This tool is an archive tool and using it, we found the oldest archive on June 3, 2023, in which the names of these four leaders are included in the Mandal.
It is clear from the investigation so far that Modi and Singh have not been included in the Margdarshak Mandal after the results of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Based on the information received so far, we did a keyword search and in the search we found a press release issued by BJP, which was released on 26 August 2014.
According to the information released in the press release, Bharatiya Janata Party’s National President Amit Shah had appointed the following senior leaders in the guiding body to guide the activities of the party, which includes Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Narendra Modi, Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Rajnath Singh.
We contacted BJP’s national spokesperson Vijay Sonkar Shastri regarding the viral post. He said that Prime Minister Modi and Singh have been a part of the Margdarshak Mandal since the beginning. He said, “The work of the Margdarshak Mandal is to guide the party and joining it does not mean retirement.”
According to a January 19, 2015 report in The Hindu, the BJP had constituted the Margdarshak Mandal in 2014 and included party founding members Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi in it, while removing them from the parliamentary board.
The user who shared the viral post with the false claim is followed by more than 400 people on Facebook.
Conclusion: The claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh were included in the Margdarshak Mandal after the results of Lok Sabha elections 24 are false. Modi and Singh have been members of the Margdarshak Mandal since 2014, which was formed to guide the party.
- Claim Review : BJP Margdarshak Mandal expanded after 24 Lok Sabha elections.
- Claimed By : FB User-Dharmendra Panchal
- Fact Check : Misleading
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