
Fact Check: This viral video from Priyanka Gandhi’s Varanasi rally doesn’t tell you the whole story
India Today
A collage of two videos related to Priyanka Gandhi’s Varanasi rally is viral on social media with the claim that only Islamic prayer was recited during the event. India Today's AFWA has found that the viral video being shared is clipped.
Ever since the October 3 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has grabbed the limelight in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. Her detention in Sitapur, the subsequent meeting with the families of the farmers killed in Lakhimpur Kheri, and then her October 10 rally in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bastion Varanasi created a buzz in the media. How low will you stoop ? pic.twitter.com/9IRg9DCGBW
Now, a collage of two videos related to Priyanka Gandhi’s Varanasi rally is viral on social media with the claim that only Islamic prayer was recited during the event. In the first video, verses from the Quran can be heard being recited on the stage during the rally. In the second video, a group of men can be heard saying the Quranic verses were recited for almost 10 minutes during the rally, and it cannot be acceptable in the city of temples, Varanasi.