New Delhi (Vishvas News). A video of Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav is going viral on social media, where he appears to be promoting the use of cow-based products. Some users are sharing it with the claim that Yadav is advocating for cow products.
Vishvas News’ investigation revealed that the video is incomplete and is being shared with a false claim. The original video is from a press conference held on October 15,2025 where a journalist asked Yadav about the Yogi government’s cow tourism scheme. In response, he criticised the Yogi government and said, “Cow tourism has to be done. Serve the cow. Worship the cow. Eat cow products. We have no objection to that. At least save Uttar Pradesh from bulls.”
Instagram user ‘navbharattv100’ shared the video (archived link) on October 22, 2025, with the caption, “Akhilesh Yadav should eat cow, its destruction is certain.” In response, Yadav replies, “Eat other cow-based products. We have no objection.”
To verify the viral claim, we extracted key frames from the video and searched them using Google Lens. The SP press conference was streamed live on October 15, 2025 from Bharat Samachar’s X handle. Around the 4:30 mark, a journalist asks Akhilesh about the Yogi government’s cow tourism plan, to which he replied, “We want to do cow tourism. Serve cows. Worship cows. Eat cow products. We have no objection to that. At least save Uttar Pradesh from bulls.” Akhilesh then criticised the...
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