Claim

In the channel's poll asking whether D.K. Shivakumar's enrollment push busts Rahul Gandhi's vote-theft claim, 90% of respondents said yes, 7% said no, and 3% could not say.

“वेल वी डिड अ पोल एंड वी आस्क्ड अ क्वेश्चन — एसआईआर इन कर्नाटका, डीके सेस मस्ट एनरोल, राहुल गांधीस वोट चोरी क्लेम बस्टेड? 90% ऑफ द पीपल बिलीव यस, द होल क्लेम हैज़ बीन बस्टेड। 7% पीपल से नो, 3% कांट से एनीथिंग।”

Rationale

The claim reports the results of the channel's own in-house on-air poll (90% yes, 7% no, 3% can't say). Such polls are self-selected, unscientific straw polls with no published methodology, sample size, or archive, so the specific percentages cannot be independently confirmed or refuted. No fact-checker (AltNews, BOOM, Factly, Newschecker, PIB) or primary source documents this poll or its numbers, and only the anchor's own reading of it exists as evidence — making the numerical claim unverifiable against external records.

Evidence

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_poll Explains that on-air/online channel polls are self-selected, unscientific straw polls whose percentages are not statistically representative and cannot be independently audited or reproduced. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2025/07/26/rahul-gandhi-vs-ec-dk-shivakumar-backs-vote-theft-claims-says-found-electoral-roll-discrepancies.html Confirms the underlying political context — DK Shivakumar backing Rahul Gandhi's 'vote theft'/electoral-roll claims in Karnataka — but contains no reference to any Newshour poll or the 90/7/3 figures. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjWtbp9sJQc A Newshour debate on Rahul Gandhi's 'vote chori' allegations, showing the show ran such segments, but no published record of the specific 30 June 2026 poll or its results. ✓ reachable · archived