Videos of speeches by the late Indian social activist Rajiv Dixit continue to do the rounds on social media. Recently, a video of one of his old speeches, where he talks about an island called ‘Satsada Bet’ near Gujarat’s Gandhidham in the Kutch district, went viral. In this, Dixit claims that under Chimanbhai Patel, then chief minister of Gujarat, the island, spread over 60,000 square kilometres, was sold to an American company named Cargill.
We broke down the claims in Dixit’s video as follows:
Instagram handle ‘kutch_first’ posted this video on May 25, 2025. At the time of writing, this post had over 323,000 views. It has now been deleted. (Archive)
This video was also posted on YouTube, where it garnered more than 5.5 million views and over 80,000 likes.
Alt News first checked whether there was any island named Satsada Bet near Gandhidham in the Kutch district of Gujarat and found nothing on Google Maps. We also checked for this island on Data Web’s site, which provides information about islands in India and found no island by this name in Gujarat or anywhere else in India. Moreover, no island in Gujarat has an area of 60,000 square kilometres.
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