Old ABP News opinion poll doctored to claim Congress victory in Himachal Pradesh polls
A video of ABP News opinion poll predicting the victory of the Congress party in the upcoming Assembly polls has gone viral.
By Md Mahfooz Alam Published on 10 Nov 2022 2:05 PM GMT
Hyderabad: A video of ABP News opinion poll predicting the victory of the Congress party in the upcoming Assembly polls has gone viral. In the video, the news anchor can be heard saying that Congress could comfortably win a majority. The video also shows a graphic projecting 39-45 seats for the Congress party and 22-28 seats for the BJP.
A Facebook user shared the video and wrote, "Congress is coming back in Devbhoomi."
Himachal Pradesh will vote on 12 November to elect its next government. The counting of votes will be done on 8 December, and the results will be declared on the same day.
Fact Check
NewsMeter searched for the latest opinion poll by ABP News and found a video of an opinion poll on the Himachal Pradesh elections released by the channel on 14 October. This opinion poll has predicted 38-46 seats for the BJP, 20-28 seats for the Congress, 0-1 seats for the Aam Aadmi Party, and 0-3 for others.
Further, we performed a reverse image search of the keyframes of the viral video and found a video of the opinion poll with similar visuals published by ABP News on 31 October 2017.
In this video, the same anchor and graphic can be seen predicting BJP's victory in the 2017 Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections. This opinion poll predicted 39-45 seats for BJP, 22-28 seats for the Congress party, and 0-3 seats for others.
Moreover, we could not find any recent ABP News opinion poll predicting the victory of the Congress party in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls scheduled for 12 November 2022. Thus, we inferred that the voice of the anchor in the viral video has been doctored and the graphic has also been digitally altered.
It is evident that the viral video has been doctored to mislead the public.
