Fact Check: 2021 video shared as Amit Shah saying he’ll topple Thackeray government amid MLA rebellion
India Today
Amid rising political tensions in Maharashtra, a video of Home Minister Amit Shah claiming that he will topple the Maharashtra government has gone viral on social media. India Today's Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the video to be old.
Amid the instability of Maharashtra’s Maha Vikas Aghadi government, a video of Amit Shah is being circulated on social media with the claim that the Home Minister has hit back at Uddhav Thackeray, saying he will topple the Maharashtra government.
One such post can be seen below.
AFWA found that the video is from a 2021 speech made by Shah. Nowhere in this speech did the Home Minister say he will bring down the Uddhav Thackeray-led government.
In the five-minute-long viral video, Shah takes a dig at the Maha Vikas Aghadi and also speaks about the Bharatiya Janata party’s rift with the Shiv Sena following the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections. However, nowhere in this clip can we hear Shah saying that he will topple the Maharashtra government.
We searched for the video in question on the internet and found a 28-minute-long version of the same video uploaded on the official YouTube channel of Amit Shah on February 7, 2021. The video was titled, “HM Shri Amit Shah inaugurates SSPM Lifetime Medical College in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra.”
This confirms that the video is old and Shah did not make the speech following the Shiv Sena MLAs rebelling against the party.
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