Old video of Delhi CM Atishi apologising to people shared on social media as recent with false claim
Atishi was widely shared on social media, with users claiming it to be a recent incident in which Atishi raised the 'Jai Shri Ram' slogan miffed people from the Muslim community, following which she had to apologise to them. The Fact Check Desk found the claim to be false as a recent video dating back to March 2024, when Atishi was the Education Minister of Delhi, was shared on social media as recent. The incident relates to Atishi inadvertently mentioning the area as 'Khajuri Khas' instead of 'Shriram Colony' in her speech, due to which the people present there got angry.
A Facebook user named Ajit Kumar Sharma shared this video on September 28 and wrote, «When Delhi's Aam Aadmi Party minister Atishi Marlena went to Shri Ram Colony, as soon as she started her speech by saying Jai Shri Ram, the crowd of Muslims sitting there immediately got up and created a ruckus that why did you say Jai Shri Ram? Then what, Atishi Marlena immediately apologised.»
The video has been shared across social media platforms with users claiming that the incident happened recently.
To check the veracity of the claim, the Desk first reverse-searched the keyframes of the video through Google Lens. We found the full video of the event, where the incident took place, on the official YouTube channel of the Directorate of Education, Delhi. This programme was broadcast live on YouTube on March 9, 2024.
The Desk looked at the video carefully and noticed that at 40:40 minutes, Atishi said, «If I have been most happy to inaugurate any one
