A post regarding Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is going viral on social media platforms with the claim that she had buried secret documents in a time capsule. Further, social media users are requesting Modi Ji to dig it out and find what is buried inside it.
Meanwhile, sharing the picture, the Facebook page Bharat Trend wrote, “Perhaps someone will remember this incident. In front of Red Fort on 15 August, 1973 Heavy loads of copper and steel in the well Indira had created some important public documents in the capsule. Hindus demand Modiji to dig this site and make the documents public so that we can know what history is hidden in it?”
Similarly, many other users have shared this picture with the request to modi ji to dug the site and make the document public.
Fact Check
On keyword research we found, an article in the Economics Times dated February 27, 2013 regarding this matter. Further, the title of the article was no information on ‘time capsule’ buried during Indira Gandhi’s tenure: PMO.
In that article, it was mentioned that “Academician-writer Madhu Purnima Kishwar had sought the information about the ‘time capsule’ which was denied as the PMO claimed it has no records on the matter.”
Furthermore, we got various articles about Indira’s capsule named KaalPatra. In an article of News18 dated August 11, 2016. it was mentioned that, Despite the hullabaloo, on August 15, 1973, Kalpaatra was suitably buried inside the Red Fort.
In 1977, the Congress government was overthrown and the Janata Party came to power under the leadership of Morarji Desai. The party had promised the people before elections that it would unearth Kalpaatra and reevaluate its contents.
A few days after the government was formed, the time capsule was disentombed. A few veteran journalists claim the capsule’s content was gravid with details about the accomplishments of Indira Gandhi and her father Jawaharlal Nehru. Another interesting fact was that the Indira Gandhi government had spent a mere amount of Rs 8,000 to bury the capsule. The successive government, however, had to reportedly spend more than Rs 58,000 to exhume it. That it was unearthed was known to all, but what happened to the capsule after that is not known. And nobody, till this day, is fully aware of its contents.
Conclusion
Therefore, from our fact-check analysis, it is clear that the Time capsule has already been unearthed in 1977. The demands of social media users that Modi Ji should unearth the time capsule this time is baseless. Hence, the viral post is misleading.
| Claim: Modi Ji should unearth Indira Gandhi’s time capsule and make the documents public Claimed by: social media users Factcheck: Misleading |
