Meet Abhishek Jaiswal, the man who called out the Train 18 video

The video Goyal posted was, in fact, shot by Jaiswal at Asaoti railway station in Haryana. He had posted it on his YouTube channel, The Rail Mail, which has 9,700 subscribers, on December 20 last year

On the night of February 9, railway minister Piyush Goyal posted a video of India’s first semi-high-speed train, Train 18 or Vande Bharat Express, zipping past a platform. The video, posted on Facebook and Twitter, was retweeted 13,535 times and garnered some 45,000 likes on Twitter alone. When he saw the video on Facebook and the congratulatory comments it had invited, Abhishek Jaiswal stepped in. “This is my video and this is forwarded by 2x speed to the original,” he commented on Goyal’s Facebook post. His comment triggered a chain of responses, many of which called out the “fake” video.