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The teasing photo of sadhus! Was it taken at 2021 Kumbh Mela?

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Kumbamela (Corona) Awful!

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With the onset of the second wave of the corona epidemic in India, the number of victims and casualties has increasing day by day.

In the midst of such a threat, thousands of people attending the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar have been affected by the corona epidemic, which is being debated across India.

Meanwhile, people attending the 2021 Haridwar Kumbh Mela have been going viral on social networking sites criticizing the photo of a crowd of devotees bathing with a cloth that they are wearing a mask down.

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“The international media was amazed at how far the mask has come down in Kumbh Mela,” said Harsh Goenka, CEO of CEAT Tire.

This news card published on the Zee Hindustan Tamil Facebook page is also being shared a lot. Since then, more and more troll memes have been released with this photo.

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But, the photo of the troll pretending to be wearing the mask to be worn on the face is not a photo taken at the 2021 Kumbh Mela.

When we reverse image search, jaytindallasia the website of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh in 2013 Kumbh festival held in the town These photographs were taken during the photo collection is released.

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Another photo of the same crowd was misrepresented as a crowd worshipping at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya between the Corona curfew.

Prior to this, some of the photos taken in 2019 as photos taken at the Haridwar Kumbh Mela went viral on social websites.
On the one hand the spread of old photos, on the other hand, the spread of corona is increasing due to the crowd gathering for the Kumbh Mela festival without any security measures in violation of the rules as devotees, naga sadhus. The Uttarakhand government has announced that no more than 200 people will be allowed, but reports say Kumbh Mela will be exempted.

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In our search, we came to know that a trolled and viral photo was taken during the Kumbh Mela in 2013 at a Kumbh Mela meeting in Haridwar.

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