A picture is being circulated on social media, showing Union Minister Smriti Irani’s 18-year-old daughter Zoish’s engagement that took place in December 2021.
The post is shared in the context of the recent controversy where the Congress alleged that Irani’s daughter was running an illegal bar in Goa. Responding to the allegations, Irani said that her daughter was only 18 years old and a college student. Her daughter’s character was publicly tarnished by the Congress party.
Following this, social media users shared the post with a caption: “स्मृति ईरानी आज अपनी बेटी की सफाई पर कहती हैं कि वह अभी 18 साल की है और शिक्षा ग्रहण कर रही है….! तो शनिवार 25 दिसंबर 2021 को स्मृति ईरानी अपने बेटी की सगाई की फोटो शेयर करके खुशी जाहिर करती हैं इसका मतलब स्मृति ईरानी अपनी बेटी का बाल विवाह करा रही है…. अपराध तो दोनों में बनता है बाल विवाह में भी और मरे हुए व्यक्ति के नाम पर लाइसेंस लेकर अवैध रुप से बार चलाने में भी….!अब तो यह नरेंद्र मोदी जी को सोंचना है स्मृति ईरानी पर कार्रवाई करेंगे या नहीं….!” (English translation: Smriti Irani today, on clarification of her daughter, said that she was just 18 years old and still a student..! But, on December 25, 2021, Smriti Irani had shared her daughter’s engagement photo, expressing happiness. It means Smriti Irani got her daughter married. So, crime is committed in both ways — in child marriage and in running a bar illegally by taking a licence in the name of a dead person. Now it is for Narendra Modi to think about whether he will act against Smriti Irani or not.)
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post, and found it to be misleading.
We scanned through the Instagram handle of Union Minister Smriti Irani and found that the same was posted on December 25, 2021, with a caption: “To the man who now has our heart @arjun_bhalla welcome to our mad cap family .. ❤️ bless you for you have to deal with a crazy man for a father-in-law & worse .. me for a Saas … (you have been officially warned) God bless @shanelleirani ❤️#newbeginnings 💌”
We noticed that Irani had tagged Shanelle Irani in the post. Based on this, we ran a keyword search and found Shanelle Irani, daughter of Smriti Irani’s husband Zubin Irani and his ex-wife Mona Irani. Here are the reports by DNA and TOI.
According to a report by India Today in December 2021, Smriti Irani married Zubin Irani in 2001 and the couple is parents to son Zohr and daughter Zoish.
Hence, from the above information, it is clear that the pictures are not of Smriti Irani’s daughter Zoish’s engagement.
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