One file for every speaker: hand-checked dossier entries and fact checks drafted by the watch desk agents and approved by an editor. Only claims that have been checked are listed; every one opens onto the evidence behind its rating.
Last discovery run: 15 Oct 2026, 13:26 IST, via rss+tavily, 27 official series retrieved
What they said is not true. The official record shows something else.
Not trueRahul Gandhi17 Jul 2026Dehradun
The final conviction rate for paper leaks in India is absolute zero, with not a single major perpetrator convicted or sent to jail.
A real enforcement problem is turned into a claim that nobody has ever been jailed.
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Paper-leak conviction rate is absolute zero
Dehradun rally · 17 July 2026, 17 Jul 2026
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Courts have convicted people in paper-leak cases. Absolute zero is false.
“Absolute zero” would mean no court has ever convicted anyone in a paper-leak case. That is not true. Courts have convicted accused persons in named leak cases, and the Press Information Bureau has recorded prosecutions.
A low conviction rate, slow trials, or unpunished organisers in some papers is a real enforcement problem. It is not the same official fact as a zero conviction rate.
There is no official NTA or Home Ministry series titled “final conviction rate for paper leaks” that equals zero.
A real enforcement problem is turned into a claim that nobody has ever been jailed.
How this was checked: Editorial — hand-checked
Not trueRahul Gandhi17 Jul 2026Dehradun
Manufacturing, entrepreneurship, corporate employment and the public sector are closed; only government jobs remain accessible.
Four sectors are declared closed without an official closed-door series.
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Only government jobs remain open
Dehradun rally · 17 July 2026, 17 Jul 2026
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PLFS shows employment across agriculture, industry and services. Company registrations and manufacturing GVA did not go to zero.
PLFS shows people employed in agriculture, manufacturing, construction, trade, transport and services — not in government jobs only.
MOSPI national accounts still publish manufacturing and services GVA. Those series did not go to zero.
DPIIT / MCA company and LLP registrations continued. Entrepreneurship as a legal category was not closed.
Central public-sector enterprises still exist and still recruit. “Only government jobs remain accessible” contradicts the same public-sector door the sentence later treats as closed.
Three, four, or five businesses have captured India’s banking money; ordinary entrepreneurs cannot obtain loans.
No official series says ordinary entrepreneurs cannot obtain loans.
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3–5 businesses captured all bank credit
Dehradun rally · 17 July 2026, 17 Jul 2026
What is actually true
RBI bank-credit data show lending across households, industry, MSMEs and services, not five firms.
RBI sectoral bank-credit data split outstanding credit across households, industry, services, agriculture and MSMEs. The stock is not five firms.
MSME and priority-sector lending are published RBI and government categories. They would not exist if “ordinary entrepreneurs cannot obtain loans” were the official rule.
Concentration of large-borrower exposure is a supervisory topic. It is not the same as “three, four or five businesses have captured India’s banking money”.
A forecast about AI is stated as a present shutdown.
How this was checked: Editorial — hand-checked
Not trueRahul Gandhi17 Jul 2026Dehradun
Privatisation has closed the public-sector route for young people.
Closed and reduced are not the same official fact.
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PSU route closed
Dehradun rally · 17 July 2026, 17 Jul 2026
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Central public-sector enterprises still employ people and still recruit. The route shrank in some years; it was not closed.
Central public-sector enterprises still employ people. Department of Public Enterprises and PIB material still describe operating CPSEs and recruitment.
Disinvestment and strategic sales have reduced the list of CPSEs in some years. A smaller list is not a closed route.
Public-sector banks, railways, defence and other government employers still notify vacancies. “The public-sector route” is not one switch that was turned off.
Closed and reduced are not the same official fact.
How this was checked: Editorial — hand-checked
Not trueRahul Gandhi17 Jul 2026Dehradun
Coaching centres, translators, printers, transporters, vendors, NTA and ministry officials form a single paper-leak structure.
Separate cases are collapsed into one conspiracy.
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One organised leak structure including NTA and the ministry
Dehradun rally · 17 July 2026, 17 Jul 2026
What is actually true
Investigations have named specific actors in specific papers. There is no official finding that NTA and the ministry are one leak syndicate.
Investigating agencies have named specific people and vendors in specific leaked papers. Those charge-sheets are case files, not a finding that NTA and the ministry are one syndicate.
NTA and the Ministry of Education are the bodies that conduct and notify the exams. An official conspiracy finding against both as a single leak structure has not been published.
Coaching centres, printers and transporters appear in some case narratives. That does not make every listed trade plus the exam body one organisation.
The percent is not a published MOSPI or exam-body statistic.
How this was checked: Editorial — hand-checked
Not trueRahul Gandhi17 Jul 2026Dehradun
Nine crore aspirants pursue government examinations, but only six lakh succeed, one successful candidate for every 150 aspirants.
A ratio is built from unmatched universes.
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9 crore aspirants, 6 lakh selected, 1 in 150
Dehradun rally · 17 July 2026, 17 Jul 2026
What is actually true
Those three numbers mix different exams and years. There is no single official 9-crore / 6-lakh / 1-in-150 series.
“Nine crore aspirants” is not a single official register of people sitting government exams in one year. Different papers, repeats and years are being added together.
“Six lakh selected” is not a single official all-government selection total that matches that nine-crore universe.
“One in 150” only exists if those two unmatched totals are divided. SSC, NTA and department vacancy lists are paper-by-paper, not one national ratio.
The same 1-in-150 line is reused in Prayagraj without the 9-crore / 6-lakh pair. That is a sign of a slogan, not a series.
Paper leaks harmed 7.5 crore students during the past decade.
Affected-candidate counts from separate papers cannot be added into that total.
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7.5 crore students harmed by paper leaks in 10 years
Dehradun rally · 17 July 2026, 17 Jul 2026
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No official decade total of 7.5 crore leak victims exists.
NTA and state exam bodies publish affected-candidate counts for named leaked or cancelled papers. Those counts are not an official decade total of 7.5 crore.
Adding every candidate on every cancelled paper, including people who sat more than one exam, would double-count. No official series does that addition into 7.5 crore.
PIB statements on individual papers do not sum to a 10-year 7.5-crore victim stock.