Amit Shah Calling PM Modi's Degrees Fake? Here's Fact Check Report
Spokesman in it's investigation has found the viral claim to be misleading.
Amit Shah Latest News: A Video of Home Minister Amit Shah is going viral on social media claiming that Amit Shah has described the degrees of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as fake. In this video, Amit Shah can be heard saying, "It's very unfortunate, Prime Minister's degrees are fake, they are not true."
Instagram account swaranjit_singh_sekhon_6195 shared the viral video. This video can be watch by clicking below:
Spokesman in it's investigation has found the viral claim to be misleading. This viral video is edited. The Home Minister has not described PM Modi's degrees as fake.
-- Spokesman's Investigation
Starting the investigation, we first watched the video carefully and started searching for news about the matter through keyword search.
Viral Video Is Edited
We found the video of the actual press conference shared by BJP's official YouTube account. This press conference was held by Amit Shah on 9 May 2016. Sharing the press conference, the title was written, "Shri Amit Shah & Shri Arun Jaitley makes educational degrees of PM Modi public: 9 May 2016".
We listened to this press conference in its entirety. Viral part can be heard in this video from 1 minute 30 seconds to 1 minute 36 seconds. In this press conference, Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley made the degrees of PM Modi public. While holding this press conference, Amit Shah made the PM's degrees public and refuted the targets of the opponents regarding PM's education.
In this press conference, Amit Shah said, "It is unfortunate that we have to give an explanation on the degrees of PM Narendra Modi. For the last few days, Arvind Kejriwal has been spreading lies about the degrees of PM. They have tried to defame PM Modi. They have claimed that the PM's degrees are fake. Today I want to show and clarify to you all that both these degrees are genuine and authentic."
Conclusion – Spokesman in it's investigation has found the viral claim to be misleading. This viral video is edited. The Home Minister has not described PM Modi's degrees as fake.