Gujarat Chief Electoral Officer’s claim of giving live demo of alleged EVM malfunction is fake and election propaganda. The person seen in the viral video is Atul Patel, while the CEO of Gujarat is P Bharti. At the same time, the machine seen in the video is not EVM.
New Delhi (Vishvas News). Two phases of voting have taken place for the Lok Sabha elections 24 and under the third phase, voting is to be held on a total of 94 Lok Sabha seats in 12 states and union territories. Meanwhile, a video related to Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is going viral on social media, claiming that the person seen in it is the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Gujarat, who has publicly shown a live demo of EVM malfunction. The work was done to bring out its flaws, under which the election results can be influenced in favor of a particular party through EVMs.
Vishvas News found this claim to be false in its investigation. Neither the person seen in the viral video is the CEO of Gujarat nor the machine seen in it is EVM. The CEO of Gujarat is P Bharti and the viral video is of a press conference of ‘Remove EVM, Save Country Movement’ and the person seen in it is Atul Petal, who has been criticizing EVMs.
What is viral?
Social media user ‘alonebut200’ went viral Video (archive Link), on which it is written, “Gujarat CEO shows live demo of EVM malfunction, BJP government upset after seeing live EVM malfunction. Live proof of EVM malfunction.”
Till the time of investigation, this video has been liked by more than one lakh people.
Test
The viral video claims that the man giving a live demo of the alleged EVM malfunction is the CEO of Gujarat. To confirm this we contacted CEO Gujarat Website Checked. According to the information available on the website, the CEO of Gujarat is Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer P Bharti.
That is, the claim made in the post that the person seen in the viral video is the Chief Electoral Officer of Gujarat is wrong.
To find the original source of the viral video, we took the help of keywords along with reverse image search and in the search we found this video uploaded on a YouTube channel named ‘rime media goa’, which was uploaded on February 2, 2024. Has gone.
This video is of a press conference of ‘Remove EVM Desh Bachao Movement’, which is being addressed by the convener of this organization Advocate Bhanu Prasad and after his talk is over, a person gives a demo of the malfunction in EVM, which is seen in the viral video clip. Are also visible.
Atul Patel’s name is seen written as a technical expert in the background of the press conference. That means the person who is giving the demo of the alleged malfunction in EVM is Atul Patel.
We used keyword search for additional confirmation. During search, we found a bulletin uploaded three months ago on the official YouTube channel of MP, which was titled “Who is Atul Patel on whom Digvijay Singh is directly challenging the Election Commission!” Uploaded with headline.
That is, the name of the person who is giving live demo of alleged malfunction in EVM in the viral video is Atul Patel, he is a resident of Gujarat. Besides this, the machine seen in the viral video is not an EVM.
Election Commission’s Website Detailed description related to EVM can be seen on. Also the Commission Website But in the answers to frequently asked questions related to EVMs, it is mentioned that EVMs are like other electronic machines and they can malfunction, but the machines cannot malfunction in such a way that it favors any one candidate. Started working, which is called tampering under EVM protocol.
We contacted the Central Election Commission spokesperson regarding the claim made in the viral video. Refuting the claim made in the viral video, he said that clarification has been given by the Commission in this matter. He shared the tweet made by the Election Commission, in which it has been called fake.
The Commission has said, “Neither the person seen in the video is the CEO of Gujarat nor any of the claims made in it are true. Also, the machine seen in the video is also not an EVM.”
Those sharing viral videos with fake claims user About 79 thousand people follow him on Instagram.
Election Commission Notification (archive) LinkAccording to ), the Lok Sabha elections 2024, to be held in a total of seven phases, began on April 19 with the first phase of voting, under which votes were cast on a total of 102 seats. The second phase of voting took place on April 26, under which voting took place on a total of 89 seats. At the same time, the third phase of voting will be held on May 7, in which voters will exercise their franchise on 94 Lok Sabha seats.
At the same time, voting on all the Lok Sabha seats of Gujarat will be held on May 7 under the third phase (archive Link) has to happen.
Amidst the ongoing voting for the Lok Sabha elections 2024, a fact check report examining other misleading and fake claims related to the elections has been published in the election section of Vishvas News. read May go.
Conclusion: Gujarat Chief Electoral Officer’s claim of giving live demo of alleged EVM malfunction is fake and election propaganda. The person seen in the viral video is Atul Patel, while the CEO of Gujarat is P Bharti. At the same time, the machine seen in the video is not EVM.
- Claim Review : Gujarat CEO gave live demo of EVM malfunction.
- Claimed By : Insta User-alonebut200
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2024-05-04 11:54:12
