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He said, \u201cThere is no basis in the allegations of discrimination at the Maha Kumbh. Cricketer Mohammed Shami also took a holy dip.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7okNME0605w?si=EFXrq6vmxNQxPwla&amp;start=190]<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Fact Check<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We conducted multiple keyword searches but found no news reports regarding Indian cricketer Mohammad Shami&#8217;s visit to the 2025 Prayagraj Maha Kumbh or his participation in the ritualistic dip. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We went through Shami\u2019s social media timelines as well, but we did not find anything regarding his visit to the Kumbh Mela.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Readers would agree that with the kind of national and international media attention the Kumbh has received, such an incident as a star cricketer&#8217;s visit to the Mela would have surely made into news reports.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moreover, we found that on January 11, 2025,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/india-announce-squad-for-england-t20i-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> India announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> their 15-member squad for the five-match T20 series against England with fast bowler Mohammad Shami included in the lineup. The series began at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on January 22. The Indian team arrived in Kolkata on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/sports\/story\/cricket-india-vs-england-t20i-series-eden-gardens-2666793-2025-01-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 18<\/a>. After the concluding match at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai on February 2, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">India <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/england-tour-of-india-2025\/india-vs-england-t20-series-2025-schedule-squads-venue-and-everything-you-need-to-know\/articleshow\/117424968.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">played three ODIs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Nagpur, Cuttack and Ahmedabad on February 6, 9 and 12. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Subsequently, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cricket\/rohit-sharma-virat-kohli-spotted-at-mumbai-airport-as-team-india-leaves-for-dubai-for-champions-trophy-101739616354498.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">team departed for Dubai<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Saturday, February 15, to participate in the ICC Men\u2019s Champions Trophy 2025. Shami is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/ind-vs-ban-champions-trophy-mohammed-shami-roars-back-against-injury-and-age-1474052\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">part of the squad<\/a> for this tournament as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2025 Praygraj Maha Kumbh started from January 13 and will conclude on February 26.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The timeline of the events suggests that Mohammad Shami has been actively engaged in national team commitments almost non-stop since January 18, making it unlikely that he visited the 2025 Prayagraj Maha Kumbh during this period. And as mentioned earlier, there is no media report or publicly available information of him visiting the Kumbh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Akhilesh&#8217;s Name-Change Quip<\/h4>\n<p>Hours after Adityanath&#8217;s speech in the UP assembly, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav shared a cryptic post on X. It said, &#8220;\u0905\u092c \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0915\u094d\u0930\u093f\u0915\u0947\u091f\u0930 \u0915\u093e \u092d\u0940 \u0928\u093e\u092e \u092c\u0926\u0932 \u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e?&#8221; (Has he how changed the name of a cricketer?&#8221;)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u0905\u092c \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0915\u094d\u0930\u093f\u0915\u0947\u091f\u0930 \u0915\u093e \u092d\u0940 \u0928\u093e\u092e \u092c\u0926\u0932 \u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yadavakhilesh\/status\/1892151076683763964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the tweet did not say anything else, it was quickly interpreted as Akhilesh taking a dig at Adityanath for the latter having confused former Indian cricketer Mohammad Kaif with Mohammad Shami. Several media houses claimed the same. Here are a few headlines:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-295372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/02\/Red-and-Gold-Indian-Wedding-Invitation-43.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"893\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/02\/Red-and-Gold-Indian-Wedding-Invitation-43.jpg 893w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/02\/Red-and-Gold-Indian-Wedding-Invitation-43-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/02\/Red-and-Gold-Indian-Wedding-Invitation-43-732x1024.jpg 732w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/02\/Red-and-Gold-Indian-Wedding-Invitation-43-768x1075.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Did Mohammad Kaif Visit the Kumbh?<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No. Well, likely not.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Former Indian cricketer Mohammad Kaif shared a photo of himself plunging into the Yamuna in Prayagraj nearly two weeks before the Maha Kumbh began on January 13. On December 29, 2024, Kaif posted a video on X where he could be seen taking a plunge into the river<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He wrote in the caption that \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I learnt how to swim in this very same Yamuna\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">Abe isi Jamuna ji mein tairaki seekha hoon \ud83d\ude00 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sangam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sangam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/prayagraj?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#prayagraj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yVs67yJMWb\">pic.twitter.com\/yVs67yJMWb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MohammadKaif\/status\/1873337044111671299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just like in the case of Shami, there is no media report or publicly available information of Kaif taking a dip at the Kumbh Mela.<\/p>\n<p>So, the claims by a section of the media that it was Mohammad Kaif who had taken a dip at the Kumbh and Adityanath confused him with Mohammad Shami, is misleading, to say the least, if not factually incorrect.<\/p>\n<h4>AI Images of &#8216;Shami at Kumbh&#8217;<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alt News would like to inform its readers that several AI-generated pictures of Mohammad Shami with tennis star Sania Mirza are currently viral on social media platforms. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/indiancricket121\/posts\/sania-mirza-with-mohammed-shami-in-maha-kumbh-o-ai-pic\/608821868571713\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one such picture<\/a>, Shami is seen wearing a saffron stole, and the caption reads, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sania Mirza with Mohammad Shami in Maha Kumbh<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ai pic\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/indiancricket121\/posts\/sania-mirza-with-mohammed-shami-in-maha-kumbh-mela-at-night-o-ai-pic\/604694645651102\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another picture<\/a>, Shami has a tilak (sandalwood-paste marking used by Hindus on auspicious occasions) on his forehead and he is again seen with Sania Mirza. Even this picture has a similar caption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Facebook page that has uploaded these pictures mentions that they are AI-generated. We are not attaching the images here to stop their amplification further.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the speech in Uttar Pradesh assembly on February 19, in which chief minister Yogi Adityanath rejected the report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on the water at the Ganga Triveni sangam in Prayagraj being currently \u2018unsafe\u2019 for bathing, he also vociferously refuted allegations made by various opposition leaders about the UP government\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":295388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[730],"class_list":["post-295318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-quotes"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- 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