Clipped video shared with misleading claim that Rahul confessed to pushing the BJP MPs in parliament
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21-12-2024 IST
Amidst the news reports (here and here) that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and two BJP MPs were involved in a scuffle at the entrance of the Indian Parliament, a video (here and here) of Rahul Gandhi allegedly admitting to pushing the BJP MPs is going viral on social media. We fact-check this claim through this article.
An archived version of this post can be found here.
Claim: Video of Rahul Gandhi admitting to pushing BJP MPs at the premises of the Indian Parliament.
Fact: The viral video is a clipped portion of Rahul Gandhi’s interview that he gave to various Indian news agencies on this issue. In the longer video, we can hear him saying the words ‘haa Kiya hai Kiya hai’ after reporters asked him if Mallikarjuna Kharge and Priyanka Gandhi were also pushed during the scuffle. This portion of the video is being shared to claim that he confessed to pushing BJP MPs. Hence, the claim made in the post is Misleading.
To verify the viral claim, we performed a keyword search and found a longer version (archive link) of this video on ANI’s ‘X’ profile. They uploaded this on 19 December 2024. In the video, reporters can be seen asking Rahul Gandhi about BJP MPs’ allegation that he pushed them. Replying to this, he said that it happened when he was trying to enter the parliament, during which BJP MPs tried to stop him.
After this, the reporters asked him whether Mallikarjun Kharge and Priyanka Gandhi were also pushed around (Dhakka Mukki) when this happened. To this, he said, “..dekhiye dekhiye. Ha Kiya hai Kiya hai, magar teekh hai, koi matlab.. Dhakka Mukki se hame kuch hota nahi hai,” which, in English means, ‘..yes, that happened but nothing will happen to us because of jostling.’
The transcript of this was also given in the ANI’s ‘X’ post, which is, “This might be on your camera. I was trying to go inside through the Parliament entrance, BJP MPs were trying to stop me, push me and threaten me. So this happened…Yes, this has happened (Mallikarjun Kharge being pushed). But we do not get affected by jostling. But this is the entrance and we have the right to go in. BJP MPs were trying to stop us from going in…The central issue is that they are attacking the Constitution and insulting the memory of Ambedkar ji.”
ANI also published a news report on the ruckus that happened at the parliament on 19 December 2024 and Rahul Gandhi’s comment about the same incident. In this report, they quoted Rahul Gandhi, in which we can clearly see that he was referring to Mallikharjun Kharge when he said that a scuffle (jostling) happened.
Additionally, we also checked a couple of other videos of this interview posted on ‘X’(here and here) by news agencies like PTI(archive link) and IANS(archive link)(as seen in ANI’s video). In these videos also, we can hear the reporters asking whether Priyanka Gandhi and Mallikharjun Kharge were also pushed and shoved (Dhakka Mukki), after which he says the lines we hear him say in the viral video.
To sum up, a clipped video of Rahul Gandhi shared with a misleading claim of him admitting to pushing BJP MPs at the Indian parliament.
(This story was originally published by factly.in, and republished by english.varthabharati.in as part of the Shakti Collective)
