<p>New Delhi: A video of a man resembling Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was recently shared by several social media users claiming that it was Soren dancing to a Nagpuri song on December 31, 2024.</p><p>However, a PTI Fact Check investigation found the claim to be false. The man in the video was not the CM but his lookalike Jasbir James Lakra.</p>.<p><strong>Claim</strong></p><p>On December 31, 2024, an X user posted the video with the caption, "Hemant Soren dancing to a Nagpuri song on the last day of 2024!!"</p>. <p>The post quickly gained traction with many other users sharing the video with the same claim believing it to be true.</p><p>Using Google Lens, PTI Fact Check reverse searched the video's key frames and found an Instagram post by ‘RanchiLive News’ from December 31, 2024, identifying the dancer as Soren's lookalike.</p>.<p><strong>Fact</strong></p><p>Further investigation revealed a report published by News18 on January 1, 2025, confirming that the man dancing to the Nagpuri song was not CM Soren but his lookalike.</p><p>The Desk also found a post on Hemant Soren’s official social media handle, where he shared pictures with his other lookalike, Munna Lohra, on September 25, 2024.</p><p>Soren captioned the post as, “A meeting between one Hemant and another Hemant. Had an insightful conversation with the talented theater artist Munna Lohra and his family.”</p><p>A comparison of the viral video with Munna Lohra's pictures revealed that the man in the video is not Munna Lohra but someone else.</p><p>Further searches led to a YouTube interview uploaded on December 31, 2024, by a channel named ‘Student Fighter,’ identifying the man dancing in the video as another lookalike of Soren, Jasbir James Lakra.</p><p>The Desk further found that the face and clothes of the man in the YouTube interview matched perfectly with the individual in the viral video.</p><p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p><p>PTI Fact Check convulsively debunked the claim, establishing that the man dancing in the video was not Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren but his lookalike, Jasbir James Lakra.</p>
<p>New Delhi: A video of a man resembling Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was recently shared by several social media users claiming that it was Soren dancing to a Nagpuri song on December 31, 2024.</p><p>However, a PTI Fact Check investigation found the claim to be false. The man in the video was not the CM but his lookalike Jasbir James Lakra.</p>.<p><strong>Claim</strong></p><p>On December 31, 2024, an X user posted the video with the caption, "Hemant Soren dancing to a Nagpuri song on the last day of 2024!!"</p>. <p>The post quickly gained traction with many other users sharing the video with the same claim believing it to be true.</p><p>Using Google Lens, PTI Fact Check reverse searched the video's key frames and found an Instagram post by ‘RanchiLive News’ from December 31, 2024, identifying the dancer as Soren's lookalike.</p>.<p><strong>Fact</strong></p><p>Further investigation revealed a report published by News18 on January 1, 2025, confirming that the man dancing to the Nagpuri song was not CM Soren but his lookalike.</p><p>The Desk also found a post on Hemant Soren’s official social media handle, where he shared pictures with his other lookalike, Munna Lohra, on September 25, 2024.</p><p>Soren captioned the post as, “A meeting between one Hemant and another Hemant. Had an insightful conversation with the talented theater artist Munna Lohra and his family.”</p><p>A comparison of the viral video with Munna Lohra's pictures revealed that the man in the video is not Munna Lohra but someone else.</p><p>Further searches led to a YouTube interview uploaded on December 31, 2024, by a channel named ‘Student Fighter,’ identifying the man dancing in the video as another lookalike of Soren, Jasbir James Lakra.</p><p>The Desk further found that the face and clothes of the man in the YouTube interview matched perfectly with the individual in the viral video.</p><p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p><p>PTI Fact Check convulsively debunked the claim, establishing that the man dancing in the video was not Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren but his lookalike, Jasbir James Lakra.</p>