: A video of Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi's Power Minister, Atishi Marlena, announcing the 'termination' of the free electricity subsidy scheme in New Delhi is going viral on social media. In the video, the minister can be heard saying that tomorrow onwards, the subsidy scheme will not be applied to "new electricity bills, starting tomorrow." The video is being shared to claim that the statement was made recently, amid the ongoing 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Those sharing the video are asking people to vote carefully. : This video has been clipped from a press conference held on 14 April 2023, and is not related to the 2024 general elections. In 2023, Atishi spoke about the electricity subsidy being stopped in Delhi, due to a tiff between the state's AAP government and the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi VK Saxena.
Team WebQoof had published a fact-check on the same clipped video in 2023, when it was being shared with misleading context. We ran a reverse image search using Google, which led us to a X (formerly Twitter) by news agency ANI, carrying updates from an AAP press conference. The thread carried the same visuals, and was shared on 14 April 2023.
| From today, the subsidized electricity given to the people of Delhi will be stopped. This means from tomorrow, the subsidized bills will not be given. This subsidy is stopped because AAP govt has taken the decision to continue subsidy for the coming year, but that file.
.. We also found news reports related to the press confer.