New Delhi: Days after the Bharatiya Janata Party was elected to power in the national capital, a viral social media post claimed that the former AAP government's 'Pink Ticket' scheme, which allows women to travel for free on Delhi’s buses, had been discontinued. Users alleged that the decision was made following the BJP’s landslide victory in the Assembly elections on February 5.

However, the PTI Fact Check Desk found this claim to be false. An official from the Delhi Transport Corporation dismissed the misinformation, and newly sworn-in Delhi Transport Minister Pankaj Kumar Singh confirmed to PTI that the free bus travel scheme for women would continue.

Claim

An X (formerly Twitter) user shared a post on February 15, purportedly claiming that the former AAP government-led 'Pink Ticket' scheme, which allows women to travel for free on Delhi's buses, had been stopped.

"It is heard that after the BJP government came to power in Delhi, the free bus service provided by the Aam Aadmi Party for women is being stopped," the user shared in the post.

Here is the link and archive link to the post, along with a screenshot:

Investigation

The Desk conducted a customised keyword search on Google and found several other users who shared the same image with a similar claim on social media. Two such posts can be viewed here and here, with their archived versions available here and here, respectively.

In the next part of the investigation, to corroborate the claim made in the post, the...

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