A 9-second video of the Aam Aadmi Party’s national convenor, Arvind Kejriwal, has gone viral on social media. In it, he could be heard saying that those who made the Constitution must have been drunk.
The video is being shared with the claim that Kejriwal is targeting BR Ambedkar, the former law minister of India who drafted the Constitution.
An X user shared the video and wrote, “BR Ambedkar was drunk while writing the Constitution: Arvind Kejriwal. He should be Arrested. Share this maximum.”
SouthCheck found that the claim was false. The viral video was clipped from the original video where Kejriwal was referring to the Congress party’s constitution.
We found that AAP Rajasthan spokesperson Devender Yadav replied to one of the viral videos. The reply was a 22-second-long video in which Kejriwal said, “I have read the constitutions of all (political) parties. Congress constitution states that no Congress member will drink alcohol (sounds of laughter from the crowd). We were talking about how whoever wrote the constitution must have written it after drinking (alcohol).”
Using the information gathered so far, we found a video published on the YouTube channel of the Aam Aadmi Party with the title ‘Arvind Kejriwal @ Rajghat’ dated December 3, 2012.
According to its description, the video showed Arvind Kejriwal making a public speech at Rajghat on November 25, 2012. In the video, at the 4:38-minute timestamp, Kejriwal can be heard making the same statement about the Congress' constitution.
Therefore, the claim that Arvind Kejriwal insulted Dr BR Ambedkar by stating that he wrote the Indian Constitution while being drunk is false. The viral video clip was edited. Kejriwal’s original remark was a critique of a ‘no alcohol’ clause in the Congress party’s constitution.
