Lighthouse Journalism found a post being widely shared on social media platforms, which claimed that Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu can soon resign from NDA. The post was accompanied with a few graphics that appeared from news channel, ABP News. During the investigation we found that the news clip is from 2018 and not recent. Viral claims are misleading.
Claim:
X user Astha Yadav shared the viral graphic on the X handle.
Check the archive version of the post here.
Other users too are sharing the same post.
Investigation:
We started our investigation by running a Google keyword search using appropriate keywords and searching for the news of which the graphics were mentioned in the post.
We found one news report that was uploaded over 6 years ago on the YouTube channel of ABP Live.
The title stated: आंध्र में चंद्रबाबू नायडू सरकार से बीजेपी के दो मंत्रियों ने दिया इस्तीफा | ABP News Hindi
The news report mentioned that two ministers from BJP had resigned from Naidu government
We also found the exact same news report the graphics of which are being used with the viral claim.
The news report was uploaded 6 years ago on the YouTube channel of ABP Live. The report was titled: NDA से अलग हुए चंद्रबाबू नायडू, आज इस्तीफा देंगे केंद्र में TDP के दोनों मंत्री | ABP News Hindi
Conclusion: Old news report from 2018 of Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu’s separation from NDA government is being shared as recent. Viral claim is misleading.
