A video of India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has gone viral on social media, claiming that a journalist asking Singh a question about Sonia Gandhi. The reporter purportedly asks him: “Sir, does Sonia ma’am still dance?”
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be FALSE.
Performing a Reverse Image Search with relevant keywords, we found a news report in India Today, dated December 28, 2018, based on the tweet of ANI. The headline reads: “Manmohan Singh was asked about The Accidental Prime Minister. What happened next?”
ANI tweet, dated December 28, 2018, had carried the original video in which a journalist can be heard asking Manmohan Singh what to say about the film made on him. The tweet text reads, “#WATCH Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh evades question on the film #TheAccidentalPrimeMinister.”
#WATCH Former Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh evades question on the film #TheAccidentalPrimeMinister pic.twitter.com/IkYeNibGSj
— ANI (@ANI) December 28, 2018
Thus, it is evident from the above information that an edited video of Manmohan Singh is being shared with misleading claims.
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