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Check | This Viral Video of Canadian MP Chandra Arya Speaking in Kannada Is Old

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Neither is the clip recent nor is it related to Arya announcing his candidature for Canada’s PM position.

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A video of Canadian Member of Parliament (MP) Chandra Arya is being circulated to claim that it shows him speaking in Kannada after announcing that he will be running for the country’s Prime Minister position.

Who shared it?: TV9 Network executive editor Nabila Jamal shared the clip with a similar claim. Along with other social media users, Business Today‘s official Facebook handle too shared it.

The above post had garnered over a lakh views on the platform. More archives of similar claims can be found here and here.

Is this claim true?: No, the claim is misleading. The viral speech dates back to May 2022, when Arya had spoken in Kannada (his mother tongue) in the Canadian Parliament.

How did we find that out?: On performing a keyword …

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