With election fever at its peak, social media is flooded with misinformation related to the state Assembly Elections.
One such post claims that IPAC’s (Indian Political Action Committee) ‘leaked’ internal survey shows that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lose the Nandigram seat.
“PK’s internal survey report leaked – Momta losing Nandigram,” the Facebook post read.
The post link can be found here.
More such posts can be seen here, here, here, here and here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found the claim to be false.
The Indian Political Action Committee, founded by Prashant Kishor, is a political consultancy campaigning for West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s party, All India Trinamool Congress (TMC).
To check the veracity of the claim, we searched for media reports on the same but did not find anything credible to support it.
We then scanned through the social media handles of IPAC and found a tweet dated March 31, 2021, where they have clarified that the viral claim is fake.
“Facing imminent defeat, @BJP4Bengal has now gone down to the level of using FAKE surveys in the name of I-PAC to keep the morale of their workers up!! P.S: In I-PAC, no one uses desktops so at-least be smart in your effort to create fake survey / reports!” the tweet read.
TMC also put out a similar post stating that ‘the document is fake & has zero credibility’.
Earlier too, NewsMobile debunked similar posts where a purported letter by the President of the West Bengal unit of BJP, Dilip Ghosh was being shared. The letter was addressed to the national president of BJP, J P Nadda stating that the results of Phase 1 elections in West Bengal are not in favour of the party.
https://newsmobile.in/articles/2021/03/31/no-bjps-dilip-ghosh-did-not-write-this-letter-to-party-president-jp-nadda-heres-the-fact-check/
Another similar post claimed that ABP News Exit Poll showed that Trinamool Congress is likely to win 23-26 of the 30 seats in Bengal that went to polls in the first phase on March 27, 2021.
https://newsmobile.in/articles/2021/03/31/fact-check-no-this-phase-1-exit-poll-survey-for-west-bengal-elections-was-not-published-by-abp-news/
Hence, from the above information, it is certain that the viral post holds no truth and should not be shared.
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