Fact Check: Is UP government distributing free condoms in Kumbh Mela?
Op IndiaAn image of a newspaper clipping is circulating widely on Social Media these days. The image claims in the headline that the UP government is going to distribute five lakh condoms in the upcoming Kumbh Mela. Upon searching ‘Kumbh main condom’ in Hindi on Google and Facebook, one of the first results was a Facebook post shared by a user named Kiran Yadav, who had written, “The UP government is spending millions of Rupees from the taxpayers’ money for the lust of certain **. When team OpIndia tried to search the veracity and spread of this so-called ‘news’ we found that on the internet, two websites, namely, ‘Azad Sipahi‘ and ‘The Voices’ have published the report. Interestingly, every word of the ‘news’ clip shared on Facebook and the web pages with the story were exactly the same.
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