Fact Check: Is this picture of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru taken during bathing at Kumbh Mela? Know the truth of the photo

New Delhi: There is a lot of debate about VIP culture in Mahakumbh in Prayagraj. Meanwhile, some users are sharing a picture of the country’s first PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. In which he/she is seen bathing in the river. Sharing this picture, users are claiming that this picture is done during the Kumbh Mela held in Prayagraj (then Allahabad) in 1938. Let’s know what users’ claim is true

What is the user’s claim?

X user named Dilip Mandal shared the picture of the country’s first PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and wrote- Jawaharlal Nehru, who takes away the poverty of the country by bathing in the Ganges in Prayagraj! (1938) Now fine, photo courtesy – India Today. The original photo is in Anand Bhavan.

On X, a user named @binodbjpgPl wrote tagging Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, “Sahab Nehru ji removing poverty in Kumbh of 1938”

What is the truth of the viral picture?

Many social media posts should be found when the vigilant team checked the viral picture with the help of Google lens. In which it was claimed that these pictures are of bathing in Kumbh Mela.

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However, in the midst of this post, some users were telling this picture of the time instead of the Kumbh Mela, when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru went to Prayagraj to immerse his/her mother’s ashes. When two information about this picture came to light on social media, the team’s team searched Google about this picture to know the truth of this picture. A report from India TodayAccording to the information given in that report, the viral picture is from the time when Jawaharlal Nehru was immersing his/her mother’s ashes in Allahabad.

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Let us know that Swarooprani Nehru, the mother of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, died in 1938, and that year Kumbh Mela was held in Prayagraj, not in Haridwar. While Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru immersed his/her mother’s bones in Allahabad (Prayagraj).

conclusion: The picture of the country’s first PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru went viral with a claim of bathing in Kumbh, in the investigation of the alert, Kumbh did not come out of the Kumbh bath. The viral picture is in 1938, Jabnehru came to Allahabad to immerse his/her mother’s ashes. Users are sharing this picture with misleading claims.