Vishvas News’s investigation found the viral post’s claim to be baseless. Sheikh Hasina’s picture with former Indian PM Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is from Bangladesh PM’s Delhi visit in 2019. The picture was not clicked during Manmohan Singh’s term as Prime Minister. The viral claim is false.
New Delhi (Vishvas News): A picture of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, former Indian PM Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is going viral on various social media platforms. In this picture, Sonia Gandhi can be seen sitting next to Sheikh Hasina. The post claims that this picture is from when Manmohan Singh was the prime minister and was on a foreign trip to Bangladesh.
Vishvas News fact-checked the viral post and the claim turned out to be misleading. In fact, the picture is from the year 2019, when Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had visited Delhi. Senior Congress leader Manmohan Singh was not the prime minister at that time. Sonia Gandhi was on the post of Congress president.
Claim:
The Facebook page ‘Himachal News Network‘ uploaded a picture on March 28, claiming, “This picture was taken when Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister and was on a foreign trip to Bangladesh.”
Believing this post to be true, other users are also making it viral from their respective accounts. An archived version of the post can be accessed here.
Investigation:
Vishvas News first used Google Lens to check the veracity of the viral post. Through this, we found a similar picture in a news item on the website of National Herald. The report published on October 6, 2019, said former prime minister Manmohan Singh and interim president of Congress Sonia Gandhi met Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Delhi. The full news can be read here.
During the search, a video of this meeting was found on the official YouTube channel of ABP News. Uploaded on October 6, 2019 It was reported in the news that Hasina was in India on a four-day visit. He met Congress President Sonia Gandhi, former PM Manmohan Singh, Priyanka Gandhi and Anand Sharma.
The video related to this meeting was also found on the YouTube channel of Congress. It was uploaded on October 6, 2019.
Taking the investigation forward, Vishvas News contacted the Congress’ national coordinator of social media Nitin Agarwal. Describing the viral picture as old, he said that the “troll army” does this to tarnish the image of Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh. This picture is from the time when Manmohan Singh was not the prime minister.
At the end of the investigation, the Facebook page ‘Himachal News Network’ was investigated. It is learned that this page is updated from Himachal Pradesh. More than 2 lakh people follow it. The page was created on September 18, 2013.
Conclusion: Vishvas News’s investigation found the viral post’s claim to be baseless. Sheikh Hasina’s picture with former Indian PM Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is from Bangladesh PM’s Delhi visit in 2019. The picture was not clicked during Manmohan Singh’s term as Prime Minister. The viral claim is false.
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