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Thursday, January 16, 2025

Social media posts falsely claim Indian opposition leader says party will 'redistribute Hindu money' - Yahoo! Voices

Remarks by the head of India's opposition Congress party Mallikarjun Kharge have been taken out of context on social media to falsely claim he said his party would take money from Hindus so it could be "distributed to Muslims". He was in fact responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's criticism of a proposal by the opposition leader Rahul Gandhi to conduct a study on wealth inequality in India.

One of the false posts was published on September 2, 2024 and included a 27-second clip of Kharge giving a speech.

"Do you know what the Congress is doing? These Congress people will enter your homes, break your banks and then will distribute your money to people outside, to the Muslims," he said in the clip.

It was posted along with a caption that read: "Money will be distributed to Muslims from the wallets of Hindus!"

"The national president of Congress has said it clearly! Congress has only one motive: to break the banks of Hindus and distribute money among Muslims," the caption went on to say.

The video has been viewed more than 1,400 times after it was shared by a member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, who has more than 5,600 followers on Facebook.

It was also shared with similar claims on X here and here.

The false claim surfaced after Gandhi said in a speech that as part of the Congress party's manifesto, it would survey how wealth was distributed in Indian society across different groups if elected to power.

Indian media reported Modi said in response the plan would...



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