Amit Malviya, the BJP's IT cell head, circulated a video showing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi performing aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Omkareshwar, Madhya Pradesh. The in charge of BJP's IT department circulated the video claiming that Rahul Gandhi performed the aarti wrong as the Earth rotates in a clockwise direction.
Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi performed the 'Ma Narmada' aarti at Omkareshwar in Madhya Pradesh at Narmada Ghat as a part of the Madhya Pradesh leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Amit Malviya tweeted a 5-second video of the Congress leader showing him performing aarti at Narmada Ghat. The caption of Malviya's post reads, "If only "chunavi Hindu" Rahul Gandhi knew that aarti is done clockwise and there is a scientific reason for it (earth moves in a clockwise direction and hence environmental frequencies are in sync with movement), he would not be making a spectacle of himself in public like this…".
Malviya refers to Gandhi as a 'temporary Hindu' accusing the Congress leader of using the Hindu religion as a ploy for elections. The same video is circulated with similar claims that read, "This is what happens when the son of a Catholic mother and a Parsi father pretends to be Hindu for electoral gains; he does aarti anti-clockwise."
We conducted a keyword search for how aarti is performed and came across articles in Navbharat Times, Newstrack, ABP Live, and Times Now, which noted that aarti is meant to be conducted in a clockwise manner.
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