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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),

By 11 Jun 2024 12:18 PM GMT
Rahul Gandhi travelling

  • Claim :

    Viral video shows Rahul Gandhi watching Modi take oath as Prime Minister for the third time while travelling on a highway

  • Fact :

    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.

Here is the comparison:


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.

Claim :   Viral video shows Rahul Gandhi watching Modi take oath as Prime Minister for the third time while travelling on a highway
Claimed By :  Social media users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Fact Check
Claim Source :  Social media
Fact Check :  False
News Summary - Video showing Rahul watching Modi take oath as PM while travelling on highway is morphed
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Satya Priya BN

A motivated professional with a zeal to learn with more than 7 years of experience as a Content and Digital manager in Press, Electronic, and Digital media. Fact checker with more than 4 years of experience in fact checking. Trained by Google News Initiative India Training Network. Fact check trainer, Factshala Trainer, BBC Young Reporter India Trainer and also participated in Trauma literacy training. Worked in Newsmeter.in as a Fact Check Lead from September 2019 to October 2021. Worked as a Freelance Senior Researcher with BBC World Service, Investigations Unit from January 2022 to Aril 2022 and also as Freelance Fact Checker for Newsmeter.in Also Conducting workshops on Fact Checking for various communities including Media students etc. Conducted fact checking workshops for school students as part of pilot project – BBC Young Reporter India in the past few months. Participated in Workshop on Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters conducted by US Consulate General and Osmania University in 2022 as Trainer. Trained the journalists on several topics of Fact checking such as Types of misinformation, Tools and Techniques of photo and video verification, Geolocation, writing fact checks, Health fact checking etc. Co-authored the first Fact check manual- “How to write Fact-checks” in Telugu language as part of the workshop. Presently working as Fact check lead in Telugupost.com.
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