Haryana State Assembly Election results, declared on October 8, 2024, gave the BJP a third straight win defying the incumbency. While BJP got 48 out of 90 seats, Congress was able to manage just 37.
In the above backdrop, a video of Congress MP from Rohtak, Deepender Singh Hooda, being carried on shoulders by a crowd has gone viral. The Congress MP was seen wiping his eyes in the video, being shared with the claim that it shows him crying over the election results.
A social media user shared the video and wrote, “This was not expected by the people of Haryana. You should have shown some humanity. This guy had worked so hard! We forgot the farmers’ movement.” (Translated from Hindi)
SouthCheck found that the claim was false. The video is old. It shows him crying after he won the Rohtak Lok Sabha seat in Haryana General Elections in 2024.
On searching with relevant keywords, we found a similar video shared by a Facebook page called Karnal Breaking News with a caption suggesting that Deepender Singh Hooda started crying after seeing the turnout for him.
Karnal Breaking News also shared the same video on its YouTube channel on June 4, 2024. The description associated with the video suggested that Hooda started crying after seeing the crowd cheering him. He had won the Rohtak Lok Sabha seat in Haryana by over three lakh votes.
We also found a report by the DNA published on June 5, 2024. The report had a screenshot of the viral video. The headline of the news report as translated from English reads, ‘Deepender Singh Hooda Emotional: After winning Hooda got emotional and started crying.’
According to the report, he was seen crying from joy after winning the Rohtak Lok Sabha seat with over three lakh votes in 2024. He had lost the same seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The viral clip showed his supporters meeting him at his place and cheering him on after he won the seat.
Hence, we conclude that the viral video is old.
