Viral posts claiming a stone was hurled at Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his roadshow in Ahmedabad, Gujarat are false.
BOOM spoke to the Gujarat police who denied such an incident and said that a stone was not hurled and all posts claiming the same are fake. The police added while there is no evidence to suggest a stone was hurled, they were investigating whether a mobile phone was accidentally thrown at the PM's convoy with the flowers being showered at him.
A Bharatiya Janata Party stronghold, Gujarat is seeing intense campaigning from both the ruling party and the new entrant to the state Aam Aadmi Party. Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a 50 kilometre long road show on Friday along with several rallies in the state accompanied by Amit Shah and other BJP leaders.
Gujarat Samachar, a news daily in the state published a report making the same false claim. The report said that when Modi was near Lal Darwaja area in Ahmedabad, he was pelted with a stone by someone in the crowd and the person was later arrested.
The story was soon deleted by Gujarat Samachar but a cached version of the same can be seen below.
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A series of posts on Facebook have also shared the false claim with the caption in Gujarati that translates to, "Narendra Modi was pelted with near Lal Darwaja, Ahmedabad, during his roadshow"
(Original text in Gujarati: "અમદાવાદમાં વડાપરધાન નરેનદરભાઈ મોદીના રોડ શો દરમિયાન લાલ દરવાજા પાસે તેમની મોટર ઉપર પથથર ફેકવામાં આવયો."
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