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Fact Check: Six-year-old News of Drunk Bhagwant Mann Viral with Misleading Claims

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A news clipping showing Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann sitting on the floor in a drunk state is doing the rounds on social media. The clipping is being shared by many users claiming Mann is expressing his grief over Manish Sisodia’s arrest by getting drunk. Users have also shared the news criticising Mann for promoting alcohol in Punjab.      

A Facebook user posted the viral post with a caption: मनीष सिसोदिया की गिरफ्तारी से दुखी भगवंत मान (English translation: Bhagwant Mann saddened by the arrest of Manish Sisodia)

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FACT CHECK

NewsMobile fact-checked the viral post, and found it to be misleading.

Running a Google Keyword Search for the headline of the news clipping, we traced a news article from six years back, published on Dainik Bhaskar. The article’s headline and  content match exactly with the viral clipping, but we couldn’t find any image in the same. 

Searching further, we came across a Facebook post from January 30, 2017, published on the official handle of BJP Punjab. The photo shows the same clipping and informs that it was published in Dainik Bhaskar newspaper on the same day.

The post criticises Mann and calls out his hypocrisy for making Punjab drugs-free while himself being in a state of drunkenness. 

We also found a tweet by Prashant Bhushan from January 30, 2017, criticising Mann for being drunk in his own party meeting. 

This confirms that the newspaper clipping is at least six years old and has nothing to do with the arrest of Manish Sisodia or any other recent events. 

Therefore, based on our investigation, we can conclusively say that the viral post, showing a newspaper clipping of drunk Bhagwant Mann and claiming that is how he expressed his grief for Sisodia’s arrest, is misleading.

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