A set of two images showing a massive crowd is going viral on social media with a claim that these visuals are from Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jhalawar, Rajasthan.
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Where are the images from?: The images are from Mathura and show a gathering at Jai Gurudev Ashram, which identifies itself as a religious organisation in Mathura.
How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search and found a tweet that linked the images to a mass gathering at Jai Gurudev Ashram, Mathura in Uttar Pradesh.
A tweet by a user 'Pankaj ji mahraaj' from 3 December 2022, carried four images that matched one of the viral images.
Another tweet by the same user carried more images and one of them matched the other image.
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Comparison between the viral image and the images found on Twitter.
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The Quint reached out to Baburam Thakur, General Secretary, of the organisation, who told us that the viral photos were from 3 December when the ashram had organised an event near the Mathura-Delhi bypass.
"The structure seen next to the stage in the photo is the Satsang Bhawan of the ashram."Baburam Thakur, General Secretary
Further, the Bharat Jodo Yatra reached Rajasthan on 4 December, whereas the viral photos have been on the internet since 3 December.
Conclusion: Evidently, images from Mathura's gathering were falsely linked to Bharat Jodo Yatra in Rajasthan.
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