Fact Check: Chief Election Commissioner met Nirmala Sitharaman before the budget? You will be shocked to know the truth of the picture

New Delhi: On 1 February, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman put a budget of FY 2025-26 in front of the country and gave a big relief to the middle class. Nirmala Sitharaman said in her budget speech that the government has decided not to impose any tax on annual earnings up to Rs 12 lakh. Apart from the news of this decision, a picture is also being shared on social media. In the picture, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the current Chief Election Commissioner of the country Rajiv Kumar are seen standing together. While sharing this picture, questions are being raised as to why the Chief Election Commissioner is with Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament while presenting the budget. Are standing The picture is being shared by giving political angle. The alert team investigated this picture and discovered the truth.

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What is claim on social media?

Sharing this picture on X (Twitter), a person named Feroz Ahmed wrote, ‘You may not have seen such a nectar … Before the budget, the President is feeding the Finance Minister curd and sugar … in the Lok Sabha Before presenting the budget, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar is also standing… has ever seen it before. See this tweet-

By sharing the picture on Instagram, Binod Saikia has been written from an account named Indian, ‘Chief Election Commissioner with the cabinet minister of Modi government!’ See this post-

Apart from Nirmala Sitharaman and Rajiv Kumar, the picture also stars Anurag Thakur

A similar claim with the picture is also made with some more X handles including Mahua Moitra fans.

What is the truth of the picture?

When this picture was searched through Google reverse image, we got links to some news. According to these reports, this picture is not of the current budget session, but is five years old. When Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget in the year 2020, Rajiv Kumar was appointed as a senior officer in the Finance Ministry at that time.

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News website found in search Business Standard news of 1 February 2020 This is the photo of this photo. The caption of the photo reads, “Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took photographs with the team of Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur and ministry officials.” See that picture-

Rajiv Kumar was appointed as Secretary in the Finance Ministry between 2017 and 2020

Apart from this, this photo of us is 1 February 2020 Telegraph india, Governance now And Rediff It was also found in the news of where Rajiv Kumar was a senior officer in the Finance Ministry at that time. After this, we came to know from the official website of the Election Commission that 1984 batch IAS officer Rajiv Kumar was appointed as Finance Secretary from September 2017 to February 2020. seeing

Between 2017 and 2020, Rajiv Kumar was appointed as a senior officer in the Finance Ministry.

conclusion

Questions are being raised on social media by sharing a picture of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and current Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar. It is being told that this picture is of this budget session. In the investigation of the alert team, it was found that this picture going viral is five years old. In the year 2020, Rajiv Kumar was appointed as Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and this picture is of the same year budget session.