Amid the ongoing general elections in India, a few pictures of PM Narendra Modi offering prayers at a mausoleum are doing the rounds on social media, claiming that they were taken recently.
The caption of the post reads: हैरान हूं गालिब, तुम्हे दरगाह में देख कर ऐसा भी क्या हुआ जो खुदा याद आ गए।…अगर ये काम विपक्ष करे तो वो पाकिस्तानी है !
Here’s the link to the above post (archive).
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post, and found the pictures to be old.
Running the pictures through Reverse Image Search, the NM team traced an article by TOI, dated June 28, 2018, with a headline: PM Narendra Modi offers chadar at Sant Kabir’s mazar.
We found the other picture in an NDTV report from 2018. The headline of the report reads: “PM Modi Pays Homage, Offers ‘chadar’ At Kabir’s Mausoleum.” According to the report, PM Modi offered ‘chadar’ at the ‘mazar’ of Sant Kabir Das in UP’s Mazhar to mark the 500th death anniversary of the poet.
ANI also shared the images of PM Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi at ‘mazar’ of Sant Kabir Das.
Sant Kabir Nagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers ‘chadar’ at Sant Kabir’s Mazar in Maghar pic.twitter.com/kKJo4hwNwL
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) June 28, 2018
Hence, it is clear that the viral pictures are from 2018 and have no relation to the ongoing elections.
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