{"id":13978,"date":"2018-06-05T20:23:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T14:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=13978"},"modified":"2018-07-09T17:36:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:06:20","slug":"no-ashok-gehlot-did-not-say-that-generating-electricity-will-remove-energy-from-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-ashok-gehlot-did-not-say-that-generating-electricity-will-remove-energy-from-water\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Ashok Gehlot did not say that generating electricity will remove energy from water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jab pani mein se bijli nikal jayegi, aur pani kheto mein jayega, toh pani mein se bijli nikal jayegi toh takat hi nikal jayegi, phir kheto mein pani kaam kya ayega (If electricity is removed from water and the water goes to the farm, such water will have no energy and will be useless in the farm- translated)<\/em>. AICC General Secretary and former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot is being roasted on social media after he purportedly made these daft remarks at a press conference. A 16-second clip is circulating widely on Twitter in which Gehlot can be heard saying these words. Sambit Patra, National spokesperson of the BJP tweeted about this video with the words “Is it authentic? Is this the way Congress misguided our farmers?”<\/em> It was also shared by Akhilesh Mishra who is a former director of MyGoV<\/a>. Mishra has now deleted his tweet. It has been tweeted by several others who are followed by the Prime Minister on the social media platform.<\/p>\n

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Friends I received this video!
\nIs it authentic??
\nIs this the way the Congress misguided our Farmers??
\nPls enlighten!!
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\u2014 Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) June 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Within no time, #ScientistGehlot became one of the top trends on Twitter as social media users supportive of BJP and PM Modi tweeted it in droves.<\/p>\n

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The mockery over this statement apparently made by Gehlot has spread on Facebook as well, with a number of individual users posting this video clip and ridiculing Gehlot and the Congress party.<\/p>\n

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Mischievously edited clip circulated on social media<\/strong><\/h2>\n

So, did Ashok Gehlot say these words? Indeed he did, as can clearly be seen in the video which is real. But, did he mean these words? What was the context in which they were uttered? Alt News fact checked this viral claim about Gehlot’s statement and found that the clip doing the rounds is a severely truncated part of a longer video. A longer version of this video which explains the context has been posted below.<\/p>\n