A photograph from Congress chief Rahul Gandhi with a younger lady is being shared on social media, amid the continued 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

The declare: These sharing the picture have claimed that it exhibits Gandhi with a lady who raised pro-Pakistan slogans, believing her to be activist Amulya Leona, who participated in a number of protests in opposition to the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) in Karnataka.

Some variations of the declare additionally inform individuals to forged their votes rigorously through the ongoing elections.

Is it true?: No. The girl within the video is Miva Jolly, the final secretary of the Kerala College students’ Union (KSU) for the Ernakulam district.

The picture was taken through the Bharat Jodo Yatra’s Kerala leg in September 2022 and has no connection to the continued elections.

How did we discover out the reality?: Crew WebQoof had debunked an identical declare which was shared with this picture in September 2022, two weeks after the Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra started.

On conducting a reverse picture search of the picture utilizing Google Lens, we got here throughout the identical image uploaded on Instagram by the deal with @miva_andreleo on 21 September 2022.

This account belonged to Miva Jolly, the final secretary of the KSU for the Ernakulam district.

She additionally uploaded a video on her Instagram, addressing and rubbishing the viral declare.

Jolly stated that she met Rahul Gandhi through the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ when he visited Ernakulam and clicked an image with him, and had been misidentified because the lady who raised pro-Pakistan slogans due to an identical haircut.

We additionally in contrast pictures of Jolly and Amulya Leona and noticed that they had been two completely different individuals.

Motion in opposition to misinformation: When the declare was first shared, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh shared a submit on his X (previously Twitter) account, saying that Congress MP Hibi Eden had filed a police grievance in opposition to BJP chief Priti Gandhi for sharing “pretend and distorted information”.

We’ve got initiated authorized motion in 5 circumstances of faux and divisive information peddled by BJP leaders and their bhakt on-line hate manufacturing unit to harm #BharatJodoYatra. Be warned! We won’t take this mendacity down.
Newest is a police grievance by MP @HibiEden in opposition to a very vicious bhakt pic.twitter.com/vubbTj0spT

— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) September 26, 2022

Conclusion: The girl seen with Rahul Gandhi within the picture is Miva Jolly, not Amulya Leona.

(This story was initially revealed by The Quint, and republished by NDTV as a part of the Shakti Collective.)