The INDI Alliance hosted a rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on April 1. It was a massive show of strength where the leaders of all major opposition parties pressed for the release of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Jharkhand’s former chief minister Hemant Soren. Amidst several pictures of the rally that were being shared on the social media platforms, one picture that showed a huge crowd on the Ramlila Maidan, was old and was from Kolkata from a rally in 2019. Viral claim of it being recent is false.
Claim:
X user Mohd Shamim Khan shared the picture on his profile.
Check the archive version of the post here.
Other users too are sharing the same image.
Investigation:
We ran a simple reverse image search on the image which led us to an article published on the website, peoplesemocracy.in.
The article was titled: West Bengal: Brigade Turns into Red Sea
This image was however used without any caption.
The article was published in February, 2019.
We further ran a reverse image search on the image that was used in the article, and found that the image was uploaded on Alamy, a stock images website.
The caption said: Kolkata, India. 03rd Feb, 2019. Left activists from different parts of state take part in the Left front Brigade rally ahead of General Election 2019. Credit: Saikat Paul/Pacific Press/Alamy Live News
Conclusion: A picture from 2019 taken in Kolkata of Left front Brigade rally ahead of General Election 2019 is now being shared as recent from INDI Alliance rally held recently at Ramlila Maidan.
