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Fake News of Adityanath Ending Quota in Private Colleges Presented as ‘Anti-Corruption’ Move

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Fake News of Adityanath Ending Quota in Private Colleges Presented as ‘Anti-Corruption’ Move Empty Fake News of Adityanath Ending Quota in Private Colleges Presented as ‘Anti-Corruption’ Move

Post by Guest Thu Apr 13, 2017 7:51 pm

New Delhi: Since his appointment as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, the right wing PR machinery and certain sections of the media have been working in overdrive to give Adityanath an image makeover.

On Wednesday, social media was flooded with Facebook posts, tweets & memes congratulating the newly-elected CM for scrapping caste-based reservation in government medical colleges of the state. The trending story was picked up by eager ‘desktop journalists’ at various media outlets the next day.

“Yogi Adityanath government has just made an announcement to end quota based reservations in private medical and dental colleges of up,“ claimed the India Today article, which has now been edited.

“In such a short span of time,” the magazine gushed, “several initiatives have been taken by UP CM Yogi Adityanath for the betterment of state and to end corruption.”

Interestingly, the India Today story doesn’t attribute the ‘news’ to any source, individual or government department – one of the tell-tale signs of ‘fake news’.

Similar articles were carried by websites like Times Group’s Indiatimes & MensXP, Indian Express’ inUth.com, Zee Group’s India.com & News Nation.

However, authorities at the state medical education department were quick to refute the ‘story’. “Reservation was never a part of the admission process in private sector medical and dental colleges as per the prevalent policy made in 2006. There has been no change in any policy whatsoever,” director general medical education Dr V.N. Tripathi he told the Times of India.


https://thewire.in/124017/adityanath-medical-college-reservation/

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