Let’s look at the fake news spread about Rahul Gandhi during the 100 days of Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra began on 7th September 2022 with a mission to walk from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. Today, 16th December 2022 marks the 100th day of the yatra which is planned to last around 150 days and in these 100 days, various big events have taken place such as election of a new Congress President, Gujarat & Himachal Pradesh elections and despite this, Rahul Gandhi had remained unfazed and focused on the yatra, which he had described as a ‘tapasya’.
Various noted cinema celebrities such as Rashami Desai, Akansha Puri, Riya Sen, Pooja Bhatt etc and noted personalities such as Aaditya Thackeray, Kunal Kamra, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan etc have joined the yatra. The yatra, however, were subject to multiple misinformation campaigns and some misinformation was spread in favor of the yatra too.
In this compilation, let’s look at the misinformation spread against Rahul Gandhi from 7 Sep to 16 Dec 2022
- An edited video is being shared to ridicule Rahul Gandhi !
- Priti Gandhi’s tweet about Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra is misleading !
- BJP minister Smriti Irani lied that Rahul Gandhi disrespects Vivekananda !
- No, Rahul Gandhi did not say throw out the ‘Hindus.’ He said, throw out ‘Hindutvavadis’ !
- Is Bharat Jodo Yatra in solidarity with PFI’s protest?
- Did Rahul Gandhi march with Amulya Leona who raised ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogan in the past?
- Were Bharat Jodo Yatris including Rahul Gandhi coming out of a bar one by one stumbling?
- Did Rahul Gandhi refuse to take aarti during Navaratri 2022?
- Did Bharat Jodo Yatris hold Pakistan flag during the march?
- Rahul Gandhi’s morphed photo is shared as from Bharat Jodo Yatra
- AAP and BJP mislead that Rahul Gandhi’s translator left the stage without translating his speech.
- BJP supporters mislead Rahul Gandhi is unaware of mic off when he speaks.
- Amit Malviya spreads falsehood on Rahul Gandhi. Again.
- Accusations made on Rahul Gandhi 2 months ago repeated again. False then. False now.
- False images spread by the BJP supporters as the caravan used for Rahul Gandhi’s pilgrimage!
- BJP Nirmal Kumar spreads the picture of Rahul with his niece with improper caption and deleted the post later!
These are just the misinformation campaigns against just Rahul Gandhi alone during the first 100 days of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which does not include misinformation and fake news spread against other Congress leaders and the Congress party in general. The list would be even longer if the time frame is further extended. There is some fake news spread in favor of the Bharat Jodo Yatra too which are listed below.
- Images from a religious event in Uttar Pradesh shared as Bharat Jodo Yatra in Rajasthan
- More than a decade old image shared as an image from Bharat Jodo Yatra, Bellary.
- An old video of a Congress’ Freedom March is shown as Bharat Jodo Yatra video.
