Fake Image of Rahul Gandhi With Aurangzeb’s Portrait Goes Viral

The original image had Mahatma Gandhi’s portrait in the background, and not Aurangzeb’s. 

(Photo: Twitter/Altered by The Quint)

An image of Rahul Gandhi captioned “इन देशभक्तों ने यह कौन से देश भक्त की तस्वीर लगा रखी है” (Look which nationalist’s portrait have these patriots put up) has been posted by a Facebook page called हिंदुत्व को बचाना है भगवा लाना है Mission 2024 Successfull.

It had been shared more than 12,700 times at the time of publishing this story.

It has also been shared by another page called We Support Namo नरेंद्र मोदी. A picture of Aurangzeb in the background is highlighted in green, with the text sarcastically calling him a “patriot”.

What is the Truth?

Alt News did a Google reverse image search and found a list of news reports on Rahul Gandhi filing his nomination for Congress president.

An article published in The Indian Express article on 4 December 2017, titled, “Congress hails Rahul Gandhi’s elevation as beginning ‘new era’: Who said what” had the same image. Except, the original image has a Mahatma Gandhi portrait in the background, and not Aurangzeb’s.

(Photo Courtesy: Twitter/@INCIndia/The Indian Express report screenshot)

In times when social media is full of photoshopped images, users can utilise image verification tools like Google reverse image search which comes handy in debunking misinformation.

In this case, the very claim that the Congress has a picture of Aurangzeb on its office wall sounds quite unbelievable. Posts like these are aimed at the most gullible who unfortunately tend to believe and share such content.

(This article was first published on AltNews and has been republished with permission)

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