A video of Jaggi Vasudev also known as Sadhguru has been circulated across social media and YouTube, where he claimed that there were no communal riots in India for the past ten years.
In the past, he has made several misleading claims which have been disproven by The Logical Indian Fact Check team. In one of our reports, we found that there were five instances where Jaggi Vasudev had spread unverified information regarding the anti-CAA protests.
Jaggi Vasudev made the claim in an interview with the Indian news agency, ANI. A video titled, 'Religious intolerance only on TV channels': Sadhguru' uploaded on Jaggi Vasudev's YouTube channel, the interviewer asks Vasudev about his views on "rising religious intolerance in India." From the 1:20 mark in the video, Vasudev can be heard saying, "When we were in university, there was not a single year when there was no major communal riot in the country. Every year, somewhere there used to be major riots. I have not heard of communal violence in the 5-6 years, at least 10 years."
"Some flashpoints have happened, unfortunately. But large communal violence, as we thought is normal for this country, you are not hearing (about) that, which is a very positive thing," he added.
Media outlets, Times Now and NEWJ, had shared the claim on their official Twitter handles as well.
Jaggi Vasudev can be seen claiming that there hasn't been a major incidence of communal violence in India for "at least 10 years".
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