A social media post claiming that congress leader and Godman Acharya Pramod Krishnam’s original name is Gul Shamad Khan is being shared widely. The post shares an image of wiki data that states Acharya’s original name is Gul Shamad Khan in support of the claim. Through this article, let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Congress leader and Godman Acharya Pramod Krishnam’s original name is Gul Shamad Khan.
Fact: Election affidavit of 2019 Lok Sabha general elections states his name as Acharya Pramod Krishnam and his father’s name as Late Jaswanth Singh. Wikidata information about Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam stating that he belongs to a Muslim family was added by a user through editing which was later removed. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam contested in the 2019 general elections from Lucknow Parliament constituency. In the election affidavit filed by him, he mentioned his name as Acharya Pramod Krishnam and his father’s name as Late Jaswanth Singh. He did not mention any other aliases to his name.
Information about Acharya Pramod Krishnam which was until then available on wiki data is edited on 04 May 2021 and a sentence ‘He belongs to a Muslim family and his original name is Gul Shamad Khan’ is added. This edited version of wiki data information is the source of the viral post. However, the info is again edited on 13 July 2021 and the sentence about his muslim name is deleted.
News article which published an interview with Acharya Pramod Krishnam stated that he was born in a Brahmin family in Bihar. All these establish that Acharya Pramod Krishnam is Hindu by birth.
To sum it up, Acharya Pramod Krishnam’s original name is not Gul Shamad Khan and he is a Hindu by birth.
