An image showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi with President Droupadi Murmu and other politicians is being shared on social media platforms.
What is the claim?: Those sharing wrote, “Can the President go to fill the form of a Lok Sabha candidate?”
Users also wrote that the country’s Constitution was “getting ruined.”
An archive of the post can be found here.
(Source: Facebook/Screenshot)
(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)
Is this true? No, the claim is false.
This image is from 2022 and was taken when Murmu was accompanied by Modi and others to file her candidature for the presidential position.
How did we find out?: We ran a Google reverse image search on the image and came across two posts on Modi’s X and Facebook pages from June 2022.
Here is a close-up of the date stamp. (Source: Altered by The Quint)We compared the two images and found them to be identical.
To verify further, we looked for news reports and found two by the Hindustan Times and ThePrint from June 2022 to cross-check the date for the nomination filing.
In a photo story, the Hindustan Times reported that Murmu submitted her nomination for the presidential election in front of Modi, Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, and BJP President JP Nadda at Parliament House on 24 June 2022.
Similarly, ThePrint also streamed news agency ANI’s coverage of Murmu filing her nomination on 24 June 2022.
Conclusion: Clearly, an old photo of President Murmu with PM Modi and others is being shared to falsely claim that it shows her filing for nomination to the Lok Sabha.
This story was originally published by The Quint as part of the Shakti Collective. Apart from the headline, excerpt and introduction, this story has not been edited by ThePrint staff.