A video is being shared on social media with a claim that it shows the chariot festival of the Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple at Kadiri in Andhra Pradesh. Let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video shows the chariot festival of Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple at Kadiri in AP.
Fact: The chariot festival video is not related to Kadiri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple (Andhra Pradesh). It shows the Tiruvarur chariot festival in Tamil Nadu. Hence the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
When the screenshots of the video were run through Google Reverse Image Search, many similar videos were found in the search results. Some social media users have posted the same video with a different description – “Tiruvarur Chariot festival, known in Tamil as Tiruvarur Therottam”.
The same chariot and similar surroundings can be seen in the ‘Tiruvarur Chariot Festival’ video streamed live by ‘Polimer News’ on 15 March 2022. More details regarding that festival can be read here and here. So, the posted video is not related to Kadiri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in AP.
The actual visuals related to the chariot festival of Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple at Kadiri in AP can be seen here, here, and here.
To sum it up, the posted video is related to the Tiruvarur chariot festival in Tamil Nadu, not Kadiri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in Andhra Pradesh.
