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Slogan on auto rickshaw saying Rahul Gandhi will be next PM is photoshopped

A fact-finding website found out that the actual slogan said that 'Rahul Gandhi will never be the PM, even if he walked all his life.'

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New Delhi: A purported image of a number slogan on an auto rickshaw saying, ‘Desh jumlon se nahi chalega, pradhan mantri Rahul Gandhi banega’ (The country won’t run on wordplay, Rahul Gandhi will be the next PM) has been shared widely shared on Twitter by supporters and members of the Congress party. 

Kamleshwar Patel, a Congress MLA from Madhya Pradesh tweeted the image, claiming that people have now understood that the country will be run with “good policies and transparency”.

देश जुमलों से नही चलेगा,
प्रधानमंत्री राहुल गांधी बनेगा।@RahulGandhi @priyankagandhi @INCIndia @kharge@OfficeOfKNath @digvijaya_28 @kcvenugopalmp@inc_jpagarwal pic.twitter.com/GmPxmwFul7

— Kamleshwar Patel (@mrkamleshwar) January 17, 2023

Other verified Twitter handles also reshared the video clip image. One of the posts shared by journalist and news analyst, Dinesh Kumar, on 16 January has garnered over 16,500 likes and more than 2,500 retweets.

Other Congress members like Hemant Ogale, Maharashtra Congress general secretary, Amit Bhadauria, the former state secretary of Youth Congress Chhattisgarh and Vijay Singh, the national secretary of Maharashtra Youth Congress also shared the picture. Another journalist Ankit Kumar Singh also shared the image asking people about their opinions on the image.

Fact check

The photo  was found to be a fake image. A fact-checking website Foto Forensics, which is used by fact checkers to verify the authenticity of images, has shown that the image has been photoshopped based on the website’s Error Level Analysis (ELA) where the image is seen to be glowing when put through its examination. According to the website, a clear image is one where the image remains black when examined.

The actual image read, Zindagi bhar paidal chalega toh bhi tu Pradhan Mantri nahi ban sakega (Even if you walk all your life, you would never be the PM).

(in collaboration with SM Hoaxslayer)


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