A video has been circulated on social media claiming that students and the public stormed the residence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Posts making this claim can be found on Facebook here (archive), here (archive), here (archive), here (archive), and here (archive).
The claim also spread on Instagram, for example here (archive).
Fact-check
Rumor Scanner’s investigation found that no such attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence has taken place recently. In reality, the viral footage shows a student protest at Pune University in June.
A video published on the YouTube channel of Indian media outlet RokhThok Maharashtra News on July 14 shows visuals that match the one being circulated with the false claim.
From the video description, it is clear that students at Pune University were climbing gates and staging intense protests.
Further investigation led to an NDTV report published on July 14, which stated that hundreds of Pune University students protested over alleged chaos in the examination results process. Students claimed errors in results, irregularities in grace marks, and a lack of transparency. As part of their agitation, large groups of students staged demonstrations at the university gates, chanting slogans.
Thus, the viral video is unrelated to Narendra Modi’s residence and instead shows protests by Pune University students in June.
Conclusion
Last June, a video of student protests at Pune University in India was falsely circulated as a recent scene of an attack on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence; which is False.
Sources
- RokhThok Maharashtra News – YouTube Video
- NDTV – Pune News: गेट तोडले, आता घुसले, पुणे विद्यापीठात विद्यार्थ्यांचा राडा,’या’ कारणाने विद्यार्थी आक्रमक
