{"id":47772,"date":"2019-10-03T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=47772"},"modified":"2019-10-03T19:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T13:39:37","slug":"video-of-elderly-man-dancing-falsely-shared-as-former-pm-morarji-desai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-of-elderly-man-dancing-falsely-shared-as-former-pm-morarji-desai\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of elderly man dancing falsely shared as former PM Morarji Desai playing garba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video clip showing an elderly man in a Gandhi cap, performing <em>dandiya<\/em>&#8211; the Gujarati folk dance, has gone viral on social media with the claim that the gentleman is former Prime Minister Morarji Desai. The accompanying message reads, <em>&#8220;MR. Morarji Desai..former Prime Minister of India played garba at Bhadeli-Valsad in year 1962.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kirti.jobanputra.9\/videos\/777819712568543\/\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/kirti.jobanputra.9\/videos\/777819712568543\/\"><p>Ex. Prime Minister of India played garba at Bhadeli valsad in year 1962 MR. Morarji Desai<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kirti.jobanputra.9\">Kirti Jobanputra<\/a> on Monday, October 22, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The above post is of October 2018, and has been shared over 8400 times so far. The 3:05 minute video clip was circulated at around this time last year, coinciding with <em>Navratri<\/em>, as is the case now.\u00a0 Several individual users have posted the video on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/videos\/?q=Late%20Prime%20minister%20Shree%20Morarji%20Desai%20Playing%20dandiya%20raa&amp;epa=SERP_TAB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Facebook<\/a> with identical text.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47774\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/dandiya2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"788\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/dandiya2.png 788w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/dandiya2-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/dandiya2-768x554.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The video has also been shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vibhinnaideas\/status\/1179590591325380608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=morarji+desai+dandiya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Morarji Desai playing dandiya! Love the energy! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Navratri2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Navratri2019<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dandiyanight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#dandiyanight<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JPugXI4QpJ\">pic.twitter.com\/JPugXI4QpJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vibhinna Ideas (@Vibhinnaideas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vibhinnaideas\/status\/1179590591325380608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same has been circulating with Gujarati text as well. The text reads, <em>&#8220;\u0ab8\u0acd\u0ab5.\u0ab5\u0aa1\u0abe\u0aaa\u0acd\u0ab0\u0aa7\u0abe\u0aa8 \u0aae\u0acb\u0ab0\u0abe\u0ab0\u0a9c\u0ac0 \u0aa6\u0ac7\u0ab8\u0abe\u0a88 \u0aaa\u0acb\u0aa4\u0abe\u0aa8\u0abe \u0ab5\u0aa4\u0aa8\u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0aa8\u0ab5\u0ab0\u0abe\u0aa4\u0acd\u0ab0\u0ac0\u0aa8\u0abe \u0a97\u0ab0\u0aac\u0abe\u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 \u0ab0\u0abe\u0ab8 \u0ab0\u0aae\u0aa4\u0abe\u0a82 \u0aa8\u0a9c\u0ab0\u0ac7 \u0aaa\u0aa1\u0ac7 \u0a9b\u0ac7&#8221; (&#8220;Former PM Morarji Desai playing garba at his native place&#8221;).<\/em> A Facebook post with this text was viewed over 63000 times and shared over 1200 times, before it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yogesh.naik.3990\/videos\/3506461856034202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deleted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2018, <em>Zee 24 Kalak<\/em> had posted a link to this video on Twitter with the same narrative.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"in\">Viral video of Morarji desai that playing garba in 1962 in Valsad | Zee24Kalak: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yoBGxOoz3o\">https:\/\/t.co\/yoBGxOoz3o<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zee 24 Kalak (@Zee24Kalak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zee24Kalak\/status\/1053857806678396928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>FACT CHECK<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The claim is false. Alt News searched Google with the key words &#8216;Morarji Desai dandiya&#8217;, and found a report by the Gujarati daily<a href=\"https:\/\/www.divyabhaskar.co.in\/gujarati-videos\/trending\/morarji-desai-playing-garba-in-valsad-bhadeli-village-347094.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em> Divya Bhaskar<\/em><\/a>. The report is of October 2018, and states that the person in the video is NOT former PM Morarji Desai.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/dandiya3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/dandiya3.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/10\/dandiya3-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The report is titled, <em>&#8216;Viral video: Garba player not Morarji Desai but Kunwarji Narsinh Lodaya<\/em>&#8216; <em>(translated)<\/em>. It states, <em>&#8220;This video was viral a few days back. It is said that India&#8217;s first Gujarati PM Morarji Desai is playing garba. The truth is something else. The person wearing the cap and playing garba is not Morarji Desai but Kunwarji Narsinh Lodaya who is playing garba with his brother Mulji Narsinh Lodaya. Kunwarji Lodaya is no more. This video is said to have been taken at a wedding ceremony in Mumbai in 1994.&#8221; (translated).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The portal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deshgujarat.com\/2018\/10\/22\/raas-dance-video-viral-in-name-of-morarji-desai-is-fake-it-hasnt-morarji-desai-in-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>DeshGujarat<\/em><\/a> also states that the person wearing the cap and performing the garba is indeed Kunwarji Lodaya, and that the video was taken at a personal wedding ceremony in Mumbai in 1994. <em>DeshGujarat<\/em> had contacted the late PM&#8217;s family to confirm that the person in the video is not Morarji Desai. The report states, <em>&#8220;DeshGujarat contacted Morarji Desai\u2019s great grandson Madhukeshwar Desai, who after watching this video confirmed this is not Morarji Desai.\u00a0 Apart from other things, he observed that Morarjibhai would always wear Chudidar. And it\u2019s not just about dress. Height, body structure, complexion everything is different than how Morarji Desai looked.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, a video showing a <em>dandiya\u00a0<\/em>performance by an elderly gentleman wearing a Gandhi cap has been falsely shared as footage of former PM Morarji Desai doing g<em>arba<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video clip showing an elderly man in a Gandhi cap, performing dandiya&#8211; the Gujarati folk dance, has gone viral on social media with the claim that the gentleman is former Prime Minister Morarji Desai. The accompanying message reads, &#8220;MR. 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