CLAIMAmidst growing anger over
Hathras
and
Balrampur
gang-rapes in
Uttar Pradesh (UP), screengrab of an undated Hindi newspaper clipping doing the rounds on social media platforms quotes chief minister (CM)
Yogi Adityanath as saying, “Our job is to save cows and not girls”.
This screengrab is being shared by several social media users to attack CM Yogi for making irresponsible remarks.
The clipping has found its way onto Facebook as well.
The same newspaper clipping has been under social media circulation for more than 3 years now.
It was tweeted from verified handle of filmmaker Avinash Das in 2018.
TRUTHYogi never made such remarks. This source of the newspaper clipping is a satirical post published by the now defunct humour portal rhumortimes.com
VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGYUsing relevant keywords in Hindi, we found several fact-checks from year 2018, which debunked this claim.
We found an
archived version of the satirical portal rhumortimes.com, where the news was first published on April 10, 2018.
The ‘
about us’ section of the same portal clearly identifies it as a satire and humour website.
Moreover, we found no credible news reports of Yogi ever making such a remark where he prioritized cow protection over women safety.
VERDICTTimes Fact Check has found the claims of CM Yogi saying that his job is to save cows and not girls, to be false.
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