No, This Video Doesn't Show Rahul Gandhi Dancing After Morbi Bridge Collapse

This video was first uploaded on Congress’ Twitter handle on 30 October at 8:42 am.

Fact-check|Rahul Gandhi danced with the locals and Congress leaders in Telangana before the Morbi Bridge collapsed. 

(Photo: The Quint)

A video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh, and KC Venugopal dancing with locals is doing the rounds with a claim that the leaders were seen having fun and dancing after the bridge collapsed in Gujarat's Morbi.

Who shared it?: The video has been shared by several users on social media to push the narrative that Gandhi turned a blind eye towards the tragedy in Gujarat and continued to have fun during the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra.

• One of the posts on Twitter has been viewed over 1,30,000 times.

An archived version of the tweet can be seen here.

(Source: Twitter/Screenshot)

(An archived version of a similar claim can be seen here.)

But the fact is: The video is from the same day, but it was uploaded on Congress' Twitter handle in the morning (8:42 am) on 30 October and it shows Gandhi dancing with the locals in Telangana.

What about the bridge collapse?: The bridge in Morbi, which has claimed the lives of at least 141 people, collapsed on 30 October in the evening. As per the CCTV footage, the incident happened at 6:32 pm.

How did we find out the truth?: We divided the video into multiple keyframes using video verification tool InVid and ran a reverse image search on some of them.

• This led us to a video tweeted by the Indian National Congress (INC) on 30 October at 8:42 am.

What does the video show?: It shows the three Congress leaders dancing with the locals. The video was also posted on the party's Facebook page.

• We also came across another video of the same event posted by All India Mahila Congress' official page on Facebook.

• They had shared the video on 30 October at 10:08 am with a caption, 'Shri Rahul Gandhi and fellow Bharat Yatris take part in the traditional Bathukamma dance of Telangana.'

This video was shared on 30 October at 10:08 am.

(Source: Facebook/Screenshot altered by The Quint)

Conclusion: Clearly, the video predates the bridge collapse tragedy and is being shared with a false claim.

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