New Delhi (Vishvas News). As soon as the Bihar elections were announced, fake and misleading news across various social media platforms has gone viral. Amidst this, a picture of a meeting between the Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar and former Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is going viral. The photo is being shared, linking it to the 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections, with claims that Nitish visited Lalu.
Vishvas News, in its investigation, found that the viral claim is fake. This picture dates back to April 2023 and is now being shared with a misleading claim, linking it to the 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections.
Facebook user ‘Bajrang Tripathi‘ shared the viral post on October 14, with the caption, “Today, Honourable Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Lalu Yadav, it is possible that there might be a possibility of him switching sides again.”
The archived version of the post can be seen here.
To begin our investigation, we first searched the viral picture using Google Lens. This led us to this picture published in a news article on the DNA Hindi website on April 12, 2023. According to the information in the news report, “Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in Delhi. The two leaders discussed the current political situation and also efforts to strengthen opposition unity to counter the Bharatiya Janata...
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