Is the removal of restrictions on Ganesh Pooja by the Shinde government Hindutva government encouraging Hindutva?- Read the Fact  Check

A piece of news is getting viral on the internet that, the Shinde government have removed all the restriction on celebrating Ganpati pooja. Further, a user named Jeet Mehra posts that “All the restrictions imposed by the Uddhav government on Ganesh Chaturthi Puja were removed by the Shinde government. This is the difference between the formation of a Hindutva government.”

Similarly, many other users have shared this similar claim on their social media handles.

Fact Check

In our fact-check analysis, we found many media reports covering the incident. Furthermore, from an article of Jagran, we got to know that the Shinde government removed all restrictions imposed on festivals, no ban on Ganesh Pooja, Dahi Handi, and Muharram.

Further, it was also mentioned Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday announced that the restrictions imposed on festivals during the coronavirus pandemic have been lifted. There is no restriction on upcoming Ganesh Chaturthi, Dahi Handi, and other religious events. He said that when the procession is taken out, there will be no restriction on celebrating Muharram.

Conclusion

Therefore, the restriction is being removed restriction from all the festivals that were imposed during corona times. Hence, the claim of the social media users is misleading.

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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