Claim: Video showing Chandrababu Naidu enraged ahead of his swearing-in as Andhra CM with the NDA.
Fact: 2021 video of Chandrababu Naidu walking out of Andhra Assembly over alleged derogatory remarks on his wife.
Chandrababu Naidu Video Fact Check: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief Chandrababu Naidu was sworn in as the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh for the fourth term Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with Union ministers Amit Shah and JP Nadda, among others, attended the ceremony. TDP holds a majority in the 175-seat Andhra Assembly with 135 MLAs, and is in alliance with the BJP and Pawan Kalyan’s Janasena Party.
Now, a video showing Chandrababu Naidu seemingly yelling, and storming off has surfaced online, allegedly claiming to show the TDP Chief enraged ahead of his swearing in ceremony, purportedly over being displeased with the allocation of ministries to his party. However, Newschecker found the video to be over 2-year-old, and not related to his oath taking as the Andhra CM.
The nearly-a-minute-long-video has been widely shared to show Chandrababu Naidu in anger ahead of his swearing in as the Andhra CM with the NDA.
Such posts can be seen here, here and here.
Fact Check/Verification
A keyword search for “Chandrababu Naidu” and “walkout” on YouTube led us to a report by Mahaa News, dated November 19, 2021. Carrying the viral footage of Naidu, it stated, “I don’t need this politics: Chandrababu Walkout from Assembly.”
We found that the video was also shared on the official YouTube channel of Amma News on November 19, 2021.
After storming out of the Andhra Assembly, the TDP Chief had addressed a press conference. Detailing the same, an NDTV report, dated November 19, 2021, stated, “Telugu Desam Party leader Chandrababu Naidu broke down on live television on Friday at a press conference he held shortly after staging a walkout of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly. He referred to what he said were harsh and derogatory verbal attacks on his wife, Bhuvaneswari.”
“Except for encouraging me in every step of my life, she never interfered in politics, whether I was in or out of power. Yet they tried to humiliate her…I faced several struggles, ups and downs in my life. I witnessed several heated debates in the assembly both when we were in power or in the opposition. But this kind of running down the opposition is unprecedented,” Naidu was quoted as saying during the same press conference by a Hindustan Times report. He further said, “I will not attend this assembly hereafter. I will return to the House only after becoming the chief minister.”
Multiple other outlets such as V6 News Telugu and Great Telangana TV had also shared the viral footage of Naidu’s walkout from the Andhra Assembly in November 2021.
Conclusion
We could thus conclude that an old video of the TDP Chief walking about of Andhra Assembly over alleged derogatory remarks on his wife has been shared to show Chandrababu Naidu enraged ahead of the swearing-in ceremony.
Result: False
This story was originally published by Newschecker as part of the Shakti Collective. Except for the headline, excerpt, and the opening introduction para, this story has not been edited by ABPLIVE staff.
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