CLAIMA photo showing a Sikh man, wearing an orange turban, bowing down and touching Congress MP Sonia Gandhi’s feet is being circulated on Twitter with the claim that it shows former Indian PM Manmohan Singh prostrating himself in front of Gandhi.
“See the depths to which the worthlessly inept
Nehru family has fallen,” Twitter user Manoj Srivastava captioned the post in Hindi while posting this photo.
The text superimposed on the image goes on to claim that Singh is elder to Gandhi by 14 years, yet he was made to bow down and touch her feet.
TRUTHThe photo doesn’t show Manmohan Singh touching Sonia Gandhi’s feet. The man in the photo is a Congress representative and not Singh.
VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGYOn closely observing the photograph, we noticed that it bore the watermark of Getty Images. Taking a cue from this and running a reverse-image search using relevant keywords, we found that the
original photo was posted by Getty Images on its portal on November 29, 2011. The image is credited to Shekhar Yadav/The India Today Group.
The image is captioned as, “A representative touches the feet of Sonia Gandhi as Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi looks on during the Indian Youth Congress's national level convention of Elected Office Bearers in New Delhi on Tuesday.”
Further, we also found that Times Group’s Bangalore Mirror had also
debunked the photo earlier on October 10, 2017.
VERDICTTimes Fact Check has found that a photo of a Sikh man touching Sonia Gandhi’s feet is being shared with the false claim that former PM Manmohan Singh touched the Congress leader’s feet.
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