A post has gone viral on social media claiming that 29-year-old Rajesh Tiwari, a civil service aspirant from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, who despite scoring 643 in the UPSC Civil Service exam, has “failed” because the “cut off for General Category was 689 this year”. The post is accompanied by a picture of a man crying, holding a file in his hand.
The post is being shared on Facebook with a caption that reads, “He is Rajesh Tiwari, 29, Lucknow, The Only person who earns in the family of Seven Members. He Got 643 Marks in the UPSC Civil Services exam this year. But Failed coz Cut Off for General Category was 689 this year. For SC/ST it was 601. So according to this the one who has got 601 will become our next Bureaucrat. The fault of Rajesh Tiwari and thousand of other like him is only that they have born in General Category, So despite having financial crisis they have to be called Upper Caste. But people like Mayawati who have crores of property will be called DALIT and will be provided Reservation for Generations.”
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The post has gone viral on Facebook.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim and found it to be false.
A Reverse Image Search directed us to the Facebook post of Sayeed Rimon (Bangladeshi influencer) uploaded on November 30, 2016.
Digging further we found out that the same viral photo was carried by multiple Bangladeshi websites in September, 2017. Rimon can be seen in various different avatars like a pickpocket or a rickshaw puller here for different campaigns.
BBC Bangla also published an article in 2017 which was about Rimon’s awareness campaigns about various issues, which can be seen here.
After his image was used by various Indian users with the viral claim, Rimon had clarified that it was him in the photo and that he is a Bangladeshi citizen.
Hence, it is confirmed from the above information that the image of a Bangladeshi influencer is being falsely shared with an emotional story of “Rajesh Tiwari.”
Searching further, we found that the ‘emotional story of Rajesh Tiwari’ has been in circulation since at least November 2017 with the same image of Rimon.
We also compared the cut-off marks given in the post with the cut-off marks of Civil Service examinations uploaded on the official site of UPSC between 2014 and 2019. While the cut-off marks for the general category are more than that of SC and SC candidates, none of the figures on the official site match with the figures given in the post in question. Also, the cut-off mark for Civil Service exams 2020 has not been released as yet.
Hence, it is clear that the viral post and photograph are being circulated with a wrong context. The image is of a Bangladeshi social media influencer and not of Rajesh Tiwari who allegedly failed UPSC exams because of the reservation system.
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