Fact Check: Video showing Rahul watching Modi take oath as PM while travelling on highway is morphed
Narendra Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister for the third consecutive term along with 71 other ministers on June 9, 2024. In the new coalition government, 30 Cabinet ministers, five Ministers of State (Independent charge),
Claim :
Viral video shows Rahul Gandhi watching Modi take oath as Prime Minister for the third time while travelling on a highwayFact :
The video is an old one taken while he was travelling during the election campaigning. No video is playing on the electronic device in the vehicle
Narendra Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister for the third consecutive term along with 71 other ministers on June 9, 2024. In the new coalition government, 30 Cabinet ministers, five Ministers of State (Independent charge), and 36 ministers of state took the oath of secrecy administered by President Droupadi Murmu. The Congress Working Committee, the Congress party’s top decision-making body, passed a resolution to appoint Rahul Gandhi as the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha.
Meanwhile, a video showing Rahul Gandhi traveling in a vehicle, and watching the Swearing in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the device in the car is going viral with the caption ‘Meanwhile, Somewhere on a highway built by Nitin Gadkari #Modicabinet’
Kashmiri Hindu on X: "Meanwhile somewhere on a highway built by Nitin Gadkari #ModiCabinet"
Fact check:
The claim is False. The video is an old one and does not show Rahul Gandhi watching Modi’s swearing-in ceremony while traveling on a highway.
When we extracted keyframes from the video and searched them using Google reverse image search, we found that the video was shared on various platforms of social media. The same video was shared on Instagram on April 25, 2024, with the caption “Next PM Rahul Gandhi coming on 4th June”. A YouTube reel was published on May 23, 2024with the caption 'RAHUL GANDHI BHARAT KI SHOCH BHARAT KI KHOJ 2024'.
An image extracted from the video is shared by an X user on May 17, 2024, with the caption that Rahul Gandhi will address a public meeting at 6.30 pm at Ramlila Maidan, Delhi the next day.
In the original visuals, the device is off and Rahul Gandhi is watching nothing on it. The video of Modi’s swearing-in ceremony has been added digitally in the original video.
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Therefore, the claim that Rahul Gandhi was watching Modi’s swearing-in ceremony while traveling on the highway in a vehicle is False. The video is morphed.
