Prime Minister Narendra Modi's supposed induction into the Margdarshak Mandal, an advisory committee of the BJP, has led several users on social media to claim that it indicates that Modi will soon retire from his executive duties as the Prime Minister. … Read on blog or Reader Alt News Read on blog or Reader No, Modi and Rajnath have not recently entered BJP Margdarshak Mandal Prantik Ali 20th June Prime Minister Narendra Modi's supposed induction into the Margdarshak Mandal, an advisory committee of the BJP, has led several users on social media to claim that it indicates that Modi will soon retire from his executive duties as the Prime Minister. The official X account of Kerala Congress on June 13 claimed that Modi and Rajnath Singh had officially entered the Margdarshak Mandal and this was a sign of Narendra Modi's impending failure at securing the confidence of the legislature in case of a floor test. At the time of this article being written, the aforementioned post has gathered more than 1.5 Lakh views and over 600 re-tweets. Modi and Rajnath Singh officially entered Marg Darshak Mandal according to BJP's website. Is this indication that the floor test is going to fail and is this a dry run of the page post the disaster? Link: https://t.co/zblyk7OePr pic.twitter.com/fp7kaabjW3 — Congress Kerala (@INCKerala) June 13, 2024 Mint Published an article on June 13 with the headline, "Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh join LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi in BJP Margdarshak Mandal." It said, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Defence Minister Minister Rajnath Singh have joined the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Margadarshak Mandal. The names of both Modi and Singh are now appearing on the official website of the saffron party along with their photos. BJP veterans Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi are already in the Margadarshak Mandal." The article was later updated. Several other verified users on X also posted with the same claim, drawing attention to how PM Modi's initiation into the Margdarshak Mandal could be evidence of his dwindling power within the party. This slideshow requires JavaScript. The claim is also viral on Facebook, with several users pointing out that the 'entry' of Narendra Modi into the list of advisory members points to his imminent retirement from the role of the Prime Minister of India. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Fact Check We ran a relevant keyword search and came across a press release from the BJP dated August 28, 2014, stating that Narendra Modi, with four other senior BJP leaders, including the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, and Rajnath Singh, had been appointed to the Margdarshak Mandal to guide the party. Screenshot of BJP's press release from August, 2014 Months after Narendra Modi first came to power as the Prime Minister in 2014, the Margdarshak Mandal was constituted as an 'advisory' committee within the party. Senior leaders like Advani and Joshi were dropped from the BJP's parliamentary board and central election committee, and listed as members of the Margdarshak Mandal, which raised some eyebrows. We ran another relevant keyword search on X, and came across this post from India Today, from August 2014. Narendra Modi, AB Vajpayee, LK Advani, MM Joshi & Rajnath Singh in BJP Parliamentary Board's Margdarshak Mandal.http://t.co/oPJOPK45bK — IndiaToday (@IndiaToday) August 26, 2014 This makes it evident that Narendra Modi has been a member of the Margdarshak Mandal since 2014, and is not a recent inductee in the advisory committee. All the social media claims of his recent induction into the advisory body are, therefore, baseless. Mint later updated its article and revised the headline to "Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh join BJP's Margdarshak Mandal? Here's the truth." Prantik Ali is an intern at Alt News.

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