Fact Check: 8 year old photo of Kanhaiya Kumar viral on social media with fake claim

New Delhi: Amidst the hustle and bustle of the Lok Sabha elections in the country, a picture of Congress candidate from North East Delhi Kanhaiya Kumar is going viral on social media. In the picture, Kanhaiya Kumar has a drip in his/her hand and he/she can be seen resting. The picture is being shared on social media with the claim that Kanhaiya Kumar has become like this due to the attack on him/her during the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections 2024.

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investigation

This claim is not true. This picture of Kanhaiya Kumar is 8 years old. This picture of Kanhaiya Kumar is from the time when he/she went on a hunger strike against the JNU administration. This picture is from the tenth day of the hunger strike of Kanhaiya Kumar and other students. In the year 2016, Kanhaiya Kumar and other students went on a hunger strike against the punishment given by the JNU administration because in the same year, a hunger strike was organized in JNU. 9 February There was a big uproar on 9 February 2016. Allegedly in JNU Anti-national sloganeering The administration had punished some students on the charge of rape even before the investigation was completed. The Quint used Google reverse image search option on this viral photo of Kanhaiya Kumar. The same photo of Kanhaiya Kumar was found in a post made on NDTV on May 6, 2016, which was shared with this user. Report It was uploaded with the message. Quoted from PTI Report According to the report, Kanhaiya had ended his/her fast due to deteriorating health.

Other news reports of 2016: Apart from this rediff.com This was reported on another news website named Report The same picture of Kanhaiya Kumar was seen in the report. This report was also published on 7 May 2016, in which it was written that Kanhaiya ended his/her hunger strike and was discharged from AIIMS. magazine.com But this picture of Kanhaiya Kumar is also there News Report which was uploaded on 06 May 2016.

conclusion

Kanhaiya Kumar was attacked on May 17, when he/she was coming out of the AAP office in New Usmanpur after a party meeting with local councilor Chhaya Sharma from North East Delhi seat. Then a group of people attacked him/her. One person has been arrested. Even after this attack, Kanhaiya continued his/her election campaign. An 8-year-old photo of Kanhaiya Kumar is being made viral on social media by calling it recent and linking it to the Lok Sabha elections.

(This story was originally published by The QuintAnd republished by NBT as part of Shakti Collective.)