Did Journalist Ajit Anjum decide to leave journalism and open a chicken kebab shop if Yogi wins the 2022 elections? Read Fact Check

A screenshot of a tweet from his verified Twitter account on January 31, 2022, went viral on social media. The tweet said, “If Yogi wins again in Uttar Pradesh in 2022, I will leave journalism and open a chicken kebab shop in Billimaran, Delhi.” Yogi Devnath posted the screenshot with the caption, “What do you want now?”

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Actually, Ajit Anjum had shared a newspaper cutting and captioned it, “What do they want now?” The headline of this newspaper cutting is, “Narendra Modi has never done vendetta politics: Ghulam Nabi Azad”.

According to Twitter bio, Yogi Devnath, outgoing in-charge of Hindu Yuva Vahini Gujarat, member of Akhil Bharat Sadhu Samaj, former president of Kutch Sant Samaj and associated with #RSS #BJP youth

Similarly, other users also captioned the screenshot with, “What do you want now?”

अब आप को क्या चाहिए ?@ajitanjum https://t.co/pkYR6UB4GP pic.twitter.com/0HyrNdnc8Q

— कुंदन कुमार वर्मा (@KundanVerma111) April 5, 2023

Fact Check:

To verify the viral tweet screenshot, DFRAC team checked Ajit Anjum’s Twitter account. They found a tweet where Ajit Anjum denied this viral screenshot and called it fake. He said, “This is a fake screenshot that is shared by  BJP’s trollers and it cell. I have never written anything like this, nor will I.”

Furthermore, Ajit Anjum clarified that he had posted a cutting from a newspaper with the caption “Now what do they want?” In the headline of the cutting, it read, “Narendra Modi never did politics of compromise: Ghulam Nabi Azad.”

अब इनको क्या चाहिए ? pic.twitter.com/GijqMAJHzr

— Ajit Anjum (@ajitanjum) April 5, 2023

After this, the team searched further and found that this screenshot has gone viral in March 2022 as well. Bollywood filmmaker Ashok Pandit posted the screenshot and wrote, “Anjum bhai kab khana chahte ho pakode? ham hi khila dete hain!’

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Even in February 2022, Ajit Anjum denied this by making a video.

And on April 06, 2023, once again journalist Ajit Anjum replied on the viral screenshot.

Conclusion:

The viral screenshot shared by Yogi Devnath with the claim that states, “If Yogi wins the 2022 election, Ajit Anjum will leave journalism and open a chicken kebab shop in Delhi.” is fake, as Ajit Anjum himself has denied it.