No, Government Is Not Giving Free Splendor Motorcycles Under Chhath Puja Offers

The video makes entirely false claims. The government is not offering free motorcycles during a Chhath Puja offer.

Several videos are being shared to falsely claim that the government is offering free motorcycles to people under Chhath Puja offers.

(Source: Instagram/Altered by The Quint)

Several videos showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi talking about special offers involving people getting Hero Honda Splendor motorcycles is being shared on social media.

The claim: The videos are being shared to claim that the government, under a limited-time Chhath Puja offer, is offering free motorcycles to people as long as they register on the link provided.

An archived version of this post can be seen here.

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

(Archived versions of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here, here, and here.)

Is it true?: No, the videos have been created using Artificial Intelligence, as there is no evidence to support to claim about the government providing people free motorcycles.

How do we know?: We ran a simple keyword search for 'chhath puja free bike' to look for more information, but did not come across any official or credible information about such an offer.

• A reverse image search on the video led us to news reports from 2019, which showed the same visuals, in articles about PM Modi launching a scheme in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur.

The report carried the same visuals.

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A video of him launching the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana was also published on PMO India's verified YouTube channel in 2019.

• This makes it evident that the visuals have no connection to the Chhath Puja in 2025.

Is it AI?: We then ran this video through Hiya's Deepfake Voice detector to check whether it was manipulated using AI.

• The tool gave it an authenticity score of two out of 100, saying that the voice was "likely a deepfake."

The audio is a deepfake.

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The website: The video asks viewers to register on the website mentioned in its account's bio to get the free motorcycle.

• When we looked at it, we saw three links which one could visit, all of which led to the same website.

All links were the same.

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

• Here, we noticed several red flags, like misspelled words, a URL reading 'bgmi', and the lack of any government-affiliated department's name or logo.

• Additionally, it listed a random string of alphanumeric characters ending with '@outlook.com' as the byline.

The page is riddled with errors.

(Source: BGMI64bit/Screenshot)

• When we visited the 'Disclaimer' section of this website, it made no mention of any scheme or Chhath Puja offers.

• Instead, it called itself an "independent, fan-made, third-party website dedicated to providing information about" a video game called Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI).

The website does not mention any offers.

(Source: BGMI64bit/Screenshot)

Conclusion: An AI-generated video is being shared with a link to a phony website with the false claim that the government is offering people free motorcycles during a Chhath Puja offer.

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