Clipped video shared as visuals of Rahul Gandhi calling himself a tailor while addressing a public meeting - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
December 18, 2023
A video is being shared on social media claiming it shows visuals of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi calling himself a tailor while recently addressing a public meeting. The video shows Rahul Gandhi describing himself as a skilled tailor, proficient in the art of cutting clothes, asserting that he can grasp the quality of cloth by just seeing it. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video of Rahul Gandhi describing himself as a tailor while addressing his speech during a public meeting.
Fact: The video shared in the post shows a clipped video of Rahul Gandhi’s full speech during the OBC Sammelan meeting held in 2018. In the extended version of the video, Rahul Gandhi makes these statements while referring to a comment made by a fashion designer during a conversation with him. Rahul Gandhi did not call himself a tailor during his address at the OBC Sammelan meeting in 2018. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
When we searched for the details of the video using relevant keywords from the video, we found an article published by the Jansatta news site in June 2018. The article reports that Rahul Gandhi while addressing the Congress OBC Conference meeting in 2018, slammed PM Narendra Modi by telling a story of how the tailor was overpowered by a fashion designer.
When searching for the video using this information, we found the same visuals in a video published by the Congress Party’s official YouTube channel on 11 June 2018. The video shows Rahul Gandhi’s speech during the OBC Sammelan meeting held in 2018. Rahul Gandhi started his address with a story targeting the disregard given to the skilled individuals under the Narendra Modi government. Rahul narrated a story detailing an incident in which Indian fashion designers were humiliated by designers from other countries while presenting their creations in France. He mentioned meeting one of the designers from that fashion show a year or two later, expressing his dismay over the public mockery of an Indian fashion designer. Rahul queried him about ridiculing Indians based on their brown skin. Rahul Gandhi said that the fashion designer had a laugh and gave an interesting answer to him.
Quoting fashion designer’s response, Rahul Gandhi said, “Fashion designer replied to me saying- ‘Rahul ji, The world calls me fashion designer, but I am not that what they say. I am a tailor. And, when I see the clothes, you can show me any cloth, any coloured cloth, just by seeing the cloth, I can understand everything about the cloth. How to cut it? How to arrange the attire in person? Which colour should go where? That’s my talent and my work. I can understand it. And, I can say to you, I can understand my work and talent. The person whom you sent to us was not a tailor. When the person came onto the stage, we understood in two minutes that the person has no knowledge of clothes. The way he was holding the clothes, we came to know that he did not anything about clothes. But the cloth he was holding, was so beautiful. Rahul Ji, the cloth was made by a tailor. The tailor was kept in a room behind the person (fashion designer). Bring out the tailor, and send him to France. We will clap and honour him. But If you send people who don’t have any knowledge of his work, we will make fun of him. We did not make fun of him because of his skin colour, but because he was not the tailor. It shows that in India, those who do the work will be kept inside the back room.” The video shared in the post shows an edited video clip of Rahul Gandhi’s full speech while he was quoting a statement from his conversation with the fashion designer.
To sum it up, a clipped video is shared as the visuals of Rahul Gandhi calling himself a tailor during a public meeting.