Lucknow, April 6 -- Yogi Adityanath's media adviser on Monday shared a "fact check" on Twitter to claim a widely viral video of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister using a swear word against a news agency camera person as fake.

In the video, Adityanath could be initially heard lauding the efforts of the Centre, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the scientists in developing vaccines against coronavirus and then suddenly using a cuss world against the ANI's cameraperson.

He said the video was edited and that part of the audio was fake and inserted later.

ANI has tweeted a fresh five-minute bite of Adityanath and said in the tweet - "Editors note: Earlier issued Live Sound byte is retracted".

The video first emerged in a tweet by retired IAS...