Fact Check: Did Singer Sonu Nigam Slam UP Voters For Not Supporting BJP?

OB Bureau

June 6, 2024 1:55 pm

New Delhi: Singer Sonu Nigam has slammed social media users and a section of the media for presuming that he commented on the BJP’s defeat in Faizabad, which houses Ayodhya and the newly built Ram Mandir.

It was actually Sonu’s namesake, Sonu Nigam Singh, who took to X to slam UP voters for not supporting BJP. People presumed the man commenting on the matter was Sonu Nigam the singer.

“The government which beautified the whole of Ayodhya, gave a new airport, railway station, built the Ram temple after 500 years, created an entire temple economy, that party is having to struggle for the Ayodhya seat. People of Ayodhya are ashamed!” the social media user’s post read. A section of the media reported that Sonu, the singer, commented on the matter. However, the Abhi Mujh Mein Kahin hitmaker clarified that he did not comment on the subject and added that this was one of the reasons he quit X seven years ago.

“I wonder how people, including the news channels that mistook him for me, didn’t do their basic sanity check by reading the description of the account. His handle says Sonu Nigam Singh and the description says that he’s a criminal lawyer from Bihar,” Sonu told Hindustan Times.

“This is the kind of nastiness that forced me to quit Twitter seven years ago. I don’t believe in making sensational political remarks and I only focus on my work. But yeh incident alarming hai, not just for me, but also my family’s safety,” he added.

Sonu also revealed his team has reached out to the social media user to make changes to his name online to avoid such confusions. “This user has been doing this for a while. I’m often inundated with screenshots of his tweets from my well-wishers. My team reached out to him and insisted he fixed his handle name and stopped pretending to be me, as millions of people are being mislead by the use of my surname. I’m sure we will find a way to fix this,” he said.