Claim: The large crowd that attended TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu's rally
in Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, can be seen in this video.
In preparation for the state's Assembly elections in 2024, N Chandrababu
Naidu, the former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh and president of the
Telugu Desam Party, has been holding a series of political rallies all
over the state. After two stampedes during Naidu's roadshows that resulted
in the deaths of 11 people, the rallies gained national attention.
After Andhra Pradesh police prevented the TDP chief from participating in
a road show in Kuppam, which is Naidu's home district and is located in
the Chittoor district, on January 4, there was a lot of tension there.
Naida's campaign vehicle was reportedly seized by police after they
reportedly used mild lathi-charge. He then went back to walking the
roadshow.
Following this, a number of individuals have posted a video on social
media of a large rally, claiming that it was from Naidu's Kuppam roadshow.
One of these videos read, "Grand welcome to #NaraChandrababuNaidu kuppam
people." A similar post's archived versions are available
here.
However, we discovered that the video is from Siddeshwar Swami's funeral
procession, which was held at Sri Jnanayogashrama in Karnataka. It has
nothing to do with Naidu's political gathering.
On social media, a few people pointed out that the video was from the
antim yatra, or funeral procession, of Siddeshwar Swami. According to
reports in the media, Siddeshwar Swami, a well-known Lingayat seer from
Jnanayogashrama, passed away on January 3 in the Karnataka district of
Vijayapura.
The same video was tweeted by a person on January 4. As per this tweet,
the video was from Siddeshwar Swami’s funeral procession.
After that, we shared the video with Asif Hussain, the Vijayapura
district reporter for the Kannada newspaper Vartha Bharati. We were
informed by the journalist that the video is from Vijayapura's Mahatma
Gandhi Circle.
“Lakhs of people had gathered to pay their respect to the seer,”
Hussain stated to AFWA. The final rites were carried out when his body
was carried in a procession from the Sainik School grounds to
Jnanayogashrama. The Mahatma Gandhi Circle, depicted in the viral video,
was passed by the procession.
Fact: This video was taken during the funeral procession of Siddeshwar
Swami, the Jnanayogashrama seer who passed away on January 3, 2023, in
the Vijayapura district of Karnataka.
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