Fact Check: Did Dimple Yadav give statement that Yogi’s government will be formed in UP election 2022?

Political parties are spreading election campaign on social media. Lies, propaganda and misleading facts are being heavily used in this election campaign. Our team has exposed many lies spread on social media regarding UP elections. Our team has been providing continuous analysis on Fake News and Hate News.

The alleged statement of Dimple Yadav, wife of Samajwadi Party national president and former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav, is going viral on all social media platforms including Facebook. The claim states that “Dimple Yadav said that only Yogi will become the Chief Minister and even Akhilesh Yadav knows it”.

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Social media users are sharing this statement claiming that Samajwadi Party has accepted that once again Yogi Adityanath’s government is going to be formed in UP.

Fact Check:

On looking at the breaking plate, it appears that it is fake, as its words have not been properly aligned, which is usually done in fake breaking plates. Still, we searched on Google to check the veracity of this news. We could not find any news or link regarding this post.

After this, we looked on this braking plate and found that the logo of “K News” was on its corner. The news was allegedly claimed to be broadcast by “K News”. After which we searched on the Twitter and YouTube channel of “K News”. But we did not get any such news. After this, our team contacted the officials of “K News”. He told that no such news has been run by our channel. This is completely fake.

Let us tell you that such rumors have been raised about Dimple Yadav in the past that she is a relative of Yogi Adityanath or that Dimple Yadav seems to be Yogi Adityanath’s sister from a distant relation. Fact check of this rumour has already been done by Jansatta.

Conclusion: It is clear from our conclusion that Dimple Yadav has not given a statement about Yogi Adityanath becoming CM again. A fake breaking plate in his name is going viral.

DFRAC Editor

Digital Forensics, Research and Analytics Centre (DFRAC) is a non-partisan and independent media organisation which focuses on fact-checking and identifying hate speech. With the popularisation of the internet came the challenge of information overload and often times, our feeds are overpopulated with conflicting, incendiary and false information which is increasingly becoming difficult to ignore and not believe in

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