Fact Check: Former PM Manmohan Singh did not touch Sonia Gandhi’s feet, false claim goes viral

New Delhi: Former PM of the country Manmohan Singh passed away at the age of 92. After his/her death, many pictures went viral on social media. While sharing one of those pictures, users claimed that the person touching Sonia Gandhi’s feet in this picture is Manmohan Singh. However, when Sajjag’s team investigated this viral picture, the truth came out to be different.

What are the claims of the users?

A user named @bijendra_bjp4up shared a picture on social media on December 29. In which it can be seen that a person wearing a saffron turban is touching the feet of Sonia Gandhi. It is written on this picture that the person wearing saffron turban who is touching the feet of Sonia Gandhi is former PM Manmohan Singh.

While sharing the same picture, a user named @pb306090 wrote, ‘Where have you gone Chamcho!’

What is the truth of the viral picture?

It has been claimed on social media that the country’s former PM Manmohan Singh is touching the feet of Sonia Gandhi. However, when Sajjag’s team investigated this viral picture, this claim turned out to be false. First of all, Sajjag’s team investigated the viral picture and checked the picture through reverse image. after which we getty images Found a picture of.

According to which the picture going viral on social media is from the year 2011. According to the caption of Getty Images, the person touching Sonia Gandhi’s feet is a Congress representative and not the country’s former PM Manmohan Singh. After that, when Sajag’s team searched about that event on Google, we found another getty images Found, which was from the same event. Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh were seen together in this picture. However, in this picture Manmohan Singh was wearing a blue colored turban, whereas the person seen in the viral picture was wearing a saffron colored turban.

After that Sajjag’s team got many more pictures of that event. Manmohan Singh is also seen in a blue colored turban.

conclusion: The claim made on social media that the country’s former PM Manmohan Singh has touched the feet of Sonia Gandhi is completely wrong. Sonia Gandhi’s feet were not touched by Manmohan Singh but by a Congress representative. In Sajjak’s investigation the claim was proved to be completely false.