{"id":37263,"date":"2019-05-27T18:37:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T13:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=37263"},"modified":"2019-05-27T21:53:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T16:23:26","slug":"no-jagan-mohan-reddy-has-not-embraced-hinduism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-jagan-mohan-reddy-has-not-embraced-hinduism\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Jagan Mohan Reddy has not embraced Hinduism"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Jagan Reddy is reconverted to Hinduism by Swarupanamda Saraswati. The Swami fixed the date of his swearing-in ceremony on May 30th.”.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jagan Reddy isreconverted to Hinduism by Swarupanamda Saraswati . The Swami fixed the date of his swearing in ceremony on May 30 th.<\/p>\n

Posted by Manoj Nair<\/a> on Saturday, 25 May 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The above message was posted by an individual Facebook user on May 25, with a video of YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy. It is being claimed that Reddy, who is a Christian by birth, has converted to Hinduism. Many other social media users on Facebook<\/a> and WhatsApp have shared the video with an identical claim. “*Breaking news: Jagan Mohan Reddy converts from Christianity to Hinduism.*\u00a0“<\/em>, posted umpteen<\/a> users with the same video.<\/p>\n

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Facebook page – Bajrangi Dal Kolkata<\/a><\/em> – has posted images, related to the same event, reiterating the claim, along with several other individuals<\/a>. \"\"<\/p>\n

Fact-check<\/h2>\n

Alt News found that the narrative circulated with the video of Jagan Mohan Reddy is false. It is an old video from August 2016. Jagan Mohan Reddy had performed ‘Homam’, a Hindu ritual, in Rishikesh for securing special category status for the state.<\/p>\n