After the 2024 Lok Sabha election results were released, a video (here and here) of BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Amravati in Maharashtra, Navneet Rana allegedly crying after losing the election has surfaced online. We fact-check this claim through this article.
Claim: Video shows BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Amravati in Maharashtra Navneet Rana crying after losing the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Fact: This is an old video from May 2022 when Navneet Rana was seen crying in the arms of her husband, Ravi Rana, in Mumbai’s Lilavati hospital. Hence, the claim made in the post is Misleading.
To check the veracity of the viral claim, we performed an internet search using relevant keywords. This search led us to the original video clip (here and here), which is actually from May 2022.
After reportedly being arrested on 23 April 2022 for ‘for threatening to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside ‘Matoshree,’ which is the official residence of the then Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at Kalanagar in Bandra East.,’ she and her husband were released from jail on bail, and Navneet Rana was admitted in Lilavati hospital (here and here).
The visulas in the viral video were filmed when Navneet Rana’s husband, Ravi Rana, met her. She cried during this interaction, and the same visuals are now being shared misleadingly as her reaction to the loss in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
To sum up, an old video from 2022 is now shared as BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Amravati in Maharashtra Navneet Rana’s reaction after losing in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
