Former Congress MLA Misidentified as CISF Constable Who Slapped Kangana Ranaut

The claim misidentifies Congress MLA posing with Gandhi family as the CISF constable who slapped Ranaut.

A photo showing Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra posing for a photograph with a woman is going viral on social media.

The users sharing this are claiming that the woman with the Gandhi family is Kulwinder Kaur, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, who reportedly slapped Mandi MP Kangana Ranaut.

(Archives of more claims on social media can be seen here and here.)

So who is she?: The image shows former Congress MLA, Divya Mahipal Maderna, from Rajasthan.

How did we find out the truth?: We then ran the viral photo on Google's reverse image search which led us to a photo on Instagram shared on 14 February by Divya Mahipal Maderna.

• Maderna is member of the Indian National Congress (INC) and was elected as MLA of the Osian constituency from Rajasthan 2018 elections.

• The image matched with the viral one.

• She also shared this on her official Facebook page.

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A post shared by DIVYA MADERNA INC🇮🇳🤚 (@divya_mahipal_maderna_)

We also compared photos of Maderna and Kulwinder Kaur and noticed that they don't look similar.

Maderna also took to X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook to call out this viral claim as "fake news spread by BJP IT Cell".

भाजपा IT सेल अपनी कुंठित मानसिकता का परिचय देने से क्षणिक नहीं चूकते। कल से पूरे देश में राजस्थान विधानसभा में आदरणीय श्रीमती सोनिया गांधी जी के राज्यसभा नामांकन के समय कि मेरी एक फ़ोटो को गलत तथ्य के साथ पोस्ट करते हुए मुझे सीआईएसएफ़ की जवान कुलविंद्र कौर के रूप में पेश कर… pic.twitter.com/LjB8PEoasM

— Divya Mahipal Maderna (@DivyaMaderna) June 14, 2024

Conclusion: A photo of former Congress MLA posing with the Gandhi family is going viral to claim that it shows them with the CISF constable who slapped Kangana Ranaut.

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