Rahul Gandhi never said that if his government is formed, he will give a loan of Rs 5000 crores to Pakistan without interest. The viral breaking plate is edited.
New Delhi (Vishvas News). Breaking plate of a news channel is going viral on social media, claiming that Rahul Gandhi has said “As soon as our government is formed, we will give Rs 5 thousand crore loan to Pakistan without interest for 50 years.” Vishvas News investigated the claim and found it to be baseless. ABP news channel’s breaking plate’s viral screenshot is edited. Rahul Gandhi has not made any such statement.
One of our users sent this screenshot to us for verification on our Whatsapp chatbot number +91 95992 99372. In the viral screenshot, the breaking plate of ABP news channel read “As soon as our government is formed, we will give 5 thousand crore loan to Pakistan without interest for 50 years: Rahul Gandhi.”
This claim is also viral on Facebook. A Facebook user named Rohini Baiswade shared this post on 25 September.
We started our investigation by doing a keyword search. We did not find any such statement from Rahul Gandhi anywhere.
In the next step of our probe, we searched the viral screenshot using Google reverse image with keywords like “ABP”. We found a tweet on the verified handle of ABP News dated November 12, 2018. It had four screenshots, one of which was the viral screenshot. The tweet read “Urgent: This is to notify that the attached media which is being circulated online has been doctored with our channel’s template. The information about Sh. Rahul Gandhi’s statements, which these images carry have not been reported by ABP & have no relation with ABP News Network”.
We spoke to Congress leader Pranav Jha about this. He called this post fake.
We also talked to a senior editor working in ABP regarding this. He also termed the post as fake.
We scanned the profile of Facebook user ‘Rohini Baiswade’, who shared the false viral claim. The user is a resident of Bilaspur.
Conclusion: Rahul Gandhi never said that if his government is formed, he will give a loan of Rs 5000 crores to Pakistan without interest. The viral breaking plate is edited.
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