Polling for the first phase of Uttar Pradesh’s Municipal Corporation elections began today amid tight security arrangements.
Meanwhile, to criticize the current government, Akhilesh Yadav the former CM of Uttar Pradesh shared a video of water logging claiming it to be of a recent scenario in Gorakhpur UP.
Sharing the video he writes, “Before the elections in Gorakhpur, the municipal corporation got exposed. There is waterlogging everywhere even with a few rains, now people will go to vote in dirty water and mud, and if it rains more than this year also people will use boats on roads. Due to the corruption of the party in power, the drains are full of filth and are stuck.”
Source: Twitter
This tweet got viral with more than 1k retweets and nearly 6k likes till the writing of this Fact Check
Fact Check:
To check the veracity of the viral claim DFRAC team converted the video into different frames and reverse-searched it and found the same video uploaded on a Youtube Channel of NBT UP- Uttarakhand
source : youtube
This video was uploaded 10 months ago.
Conclusion:
With the investigation of DFRAC team it is clear that the video of waterlogging shared by Akhilesh Yadav is 10 months old and not of recent times. Hence, the video is misleading