A 30-second video that shows policemen aggressively escorting a man is viral with Malayalam text that reads, “His father was the Prime Minister, father’s mother was the Prime Minister, and his grandmother was the Prime Minister. If this is his fate, then what about the common man?” Thus implying that in man in the video is Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
(Translated from അച്ചൻ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി, അച്ചന്റെ അമ്മ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി, അമ്മൂമ്മ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി എന്നിട്ടും ഇദ്ധേഹത്തിന്റെ ഗതി ഇതാണെങ്കിൽ സാധാരണക്കാരന്റെ കാര്യം പിന്നെ എന്ത് പറയാനാ)
The video (archived link) has been shared against the backdrop of the alleged rape of a Dalit woman in Hathras. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited the victim’s family after several confrontations with Uttar Pradesh police.
ഇത് 🇮🇳ഇന്ത്യയുടെ ഭാവി പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി. അച്ചൻ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി, അച്ചന്റെ അമ്മ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി, അച്ചമ്മയുടെ അച്ചൻ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി.
ഇദ്ധേഹത്തിന്റെ ഗതി ഇതാണെങ്കിൽ സാധാരണക്കാരന്റെ കാര്യം എന്ത് പറയാനാ🤔 pic.twitter.com/1UZiu96VT2— 🅱🅰🆂🅸🆃🅷 𝖎𝖓𝕯𝖎𝖆𝖓𝖔𝖔𝖗 © (@abdulbasith_inr) October 3, 2020
Several users have shared the clip on Facebook.
It was also posted on YouTube.
Video shows AAP MLA Ajay Dutt
Alt News performed a reverse image search using video verification tool InVid and found that the video was posted by Aam Aadmi Party’s official Twitter account on September 30.
The tweet identified the man as AAP MLA Ajay Dutt on his way to Safdarjung hospital to aid the Hathras victim’s family. “Police manhandled him. Police wanted to carry the victim’s body in an unnumbered vehicle without the consent of the family,” it furthered.
AAP MLA @ajaydutt48 went to Safdarjung hospital yesterday to help the victim's family. Police manhandled him.
Police wanted to carry victim's body in an unnumbered vehicle without the consent of the family. #बलात्कारी_योगी_सरकार pic.twitter.com/uxtYR5FYu6
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) September 30, 2020
Ajay Dutt had also tweeted the video on October 3. He wrote in Hindi, “After the death of Hathras’s Dalit daughter [name redacted] in Safdarjung hospital, the police is harassing the family members of the victim. They are taking the dead body in a car without a number plate. When I questioned the DCP, ACP, SHO, I was thrashed. I request @LtGovDelhi to take strict actions against them. Watch the video.”
As per a report by The Outlook, Dutt told reporters, “They took me to a room, pulled me by my collar. I was slapped and kicked by the SHO, ACP, and DCP. If this is the treatment given to an elected representative then think about the common man.”
AAP MLA @AjayDutt48 claimed he was "kicked and slapped" by senior Delhi police officers when he went to meet the family of the #Hathras gang rape victim at Safdarjung Hospital.@AamAadmiPartyhttps://t.co/b8oY79wlpg
— Outlook Magazine (@Outlookindia) September 30, 2020
Thus, the social media claim that video shows Rahul Gandhi is false. The man in the white kurta is AAP MLA Ajay Dutt.
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