A video from last year where Rahul Gandhi while showcasing a booklet on farm laws to media persons turned around, is being shared on social media with misleading claims targeting the former Congress president.
The video, whose audio has been muted and overlaid with a film dialogue, is being shared claiming Gandhi turned around showing his back to photographers when they asked him to show the back view of the booklet he was holding.
The video has been overlaid with a dialogue from the Bollywood film 3 Idiots saying "Jahanpanah tussi great ho, tohfa kabool karo", to take a dig at the Congress leader.
BOOM found that the video is altered. The original video shows Rahul Gandhi was mocking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while turning around.
The Hindi caption with the video translates to, "When a journalist asked to show the poster from behind too, then our Rahul ji showed his back... What an item he is.."
(Original Text in Hindi: जब पतरकार नें कहा पोसटर पीछे से भी दिखाओ तो अपने राहुल जी ने पिछवाडा दिखा दिया,, कया आईटम है यार,,,)
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BJP leader and former Bihar cabinet minister Jibesh Kumar too posted the video with a similar claim.
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BOOM performed a reverse image search on one of the key-frames and found an image on a stock photo website named Alamy where Rahul Gandhi can be seen in the same attire as seen in the viral video.
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