Fact-Check: Did Akhilesh Yadav Attend Iftar Party But Skip Maha Kumbh 2025? No!
The claim is misleading as there are several visuals of Akhilesh Yadav attending the 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela.
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A video showing Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav at an iftar party is being shared on social media, where the text accompanying the clip claims that Yadav skipped the 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela but attended an iftar party.
This post by Facebook page 'Troll indian Politics' was shared by over 3,100 users at the time of writing this report.
(Archives of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here, here, here, and here.)
But...?: The claim is false.
Akhilesh Yadav took the holy dip during the 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj on 27 January.
How did we find out the truth?: We carried out a reverse image search on the video, and found that the clip in the claim indeed showed Yadav at an iftar party in Lucknow, on 29 March.
To verify whether Yadav had attended the Maha Kumbh Mela, we ran a keyword search for the same.
It led us to a video uploaded on Live Hindustan's verified YouTube channel, where a video of Yadav taking the holy dip was published on 27 January.
The video was shared by several news organisations, including UP Tak, ABP Live, and Zee Bihar Jharkhand.
The SP leader had also shared visuals of him attending the religious gathering on his X (formerly Twitter) account on the same day.
Yadav had shared photos of his visit.
(Source: X/Screenshot)
Conclusion: A clip of Akhilesh Yadav at an iftar party is being shared to falsely claim that he attended iftar parties but did not go to the 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela.
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