By Abhishek Kumar

A video of an interview with Union minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari is doing the rounds on social media. Gadkari states, “Today, the villages, the poor, labourers, farmers are distressed. The reason behind this is that in rural agricultural centres and tribal areas, there are no good roads, no clean water to drink, no good hospitals, no good schools, and the farmers are not getting fair prices for their crops.” The video is being shared with the claim that the politician criticized his own party.

Congress shared this video from its official X handle with the same claim. (Archived link)

National president of the Indian Youth Congress Srinivas BV shared the video and wrote, “I think action will be taken against Nitin Gadkari now; he could also be called a traitor. By standing in support of farmers, he is directly plotting to bring down Modi’s ‘graph.'” (Archived link)

Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate, along with the handles of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Sevadal, and Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee also shared the clip.

A user named Maheen Khan posted the video writing that Nitin Gadkari’s statements revealed the story of the misery brought by the Modi government in which farmers, labourers, and the poor were not happy. (Archived link)

Fact Check

We noticed that the viral video had a LallanTop logo visible. A search on the YouTube channel of The LallanTop, a Hindi media outlet from the India Today stable, led us to the full version of this interview uploaded on February 29.

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