CLAIM AND CLAIMEE

“Wife of Karnataka CM inaugurating a gym in Bangalore at time floods are making people killed…”

Wife of Karnataka CM inaugrating Gym in Bangalore at time floods are making people killed... #Karnataka https://t.co/7bG9CEtTYy — TheGiniKhan (@giniromet) 1535339624000

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It is not often that people check facts before retweeting, resharing and spreading what they come across on social media platforms. An video is now doing rounds with a claim that the woman seen in the video is Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy 's wife.On August 26, a Twitter handle @giniromet tweeted a video of a woman at an inauguration function and claimed it to be Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy’s wife inaugurating a gym in Bengaluru.Here’s what the tweet said -along with #Karnataka.Here is the tweet -It is clear that the intention was to mislead people into believing that Kumaraswamy’s wife was busy inaugurating a gym while people of Bengaluru are dealing with water-logging and a flood warning for September.The tweet has already been retweeted over 280 times and liked by nearly 400 Twitter users. The video has garnered over 9,500 views.Actor and producer Radhika, in an exclusive interview to TOI in 2010, accepted that she has been married to Kumaraswamy for four years and that they have a daughter named Shamika.The woman seen in the video that was tweeted claiming it to be Kumaraswamy’s wife, however, is that of former Miss India Ankita Shorey . This is a four-year-old video of Shorey shot while she was inaugurating a gym in Mumbai. The video had gone viral that year, and have been doing rounds on social media for an infamous wardrobe malfunction Shorey faced.A simple Google search with keywords “actress gym inauguration” will directly throw a YouTube link of Ankita Shorey’s video.It was also easily confirmed that the woman seen in the video is not Radhika, who claims to be Kumaraswamy’s wife.Times Fact-Check team has found that the claim to be false and the news to be fake.