As India geared up for key elections in April 2024, social media posts viewed hundreds of times falsely claimed a video of a Hindu priest doing a handstand walk around a revered north Indian temple showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his mid-twenties. The priest seen in the clip told AFP that he performed the stunt in June 2021.
The Uttarakhand government has formed a high-level inquiry committee to investigate allegations of a ₹1.25 billion scam involving the gold plating of the Kedarnath temple s sanctum sanctorum.