A morphed image of Supriya Sule sitting on CM’s chair is viral.
Claim
Rating
Explanation
Shivsena Spokesperson, Sheetal Mhatre shared a photo of Supriya Sule claiming that she is sitting on CM’s chair.
What is the truth?
When the keywords related to the viral tweet is searched on Twitter, several tweets were found with the same claim.
A tweet of Clyde Crasto, NCP’s National Spokesperson, denying the claim with the original picture and morphed picture is also found.
Picture of Ms.Supriya Sule posted by @sheetalmhatre1 is a morphed image with clear intentions of maligning her image.@MahaCyber1, @MumbaiPolice must take action immediately.#SheetalMhatre must apologize to Ms.Sule and take down the tweet or @NCPspeaks will take legal action pic.twitter.com/yrHaivJtFn
— Clyde Crasto – क्लाईड क्रास्टो (@Clyde_Crasto) September 24, 2022
When the pictures are searched to check the veracity, it is found that Clyde Crasto’s post is true.
With further searching, Sudhir Suryawanshi’s tweet was found, which describes the reason behind sharing the morphed picture.
.@NCPspeaks filed police complaint against @sheetalmhatre1 for sharing the morphed picture of @supriya_sule sitting in CM chair with NCP senior leaders and asked the police to take action against Ms Mhatre. @NewIndianXpress @TheMornStandard
— Sudhir Suryawanshi (@ss_suryawanshi) September 24, 2022
It is found that Supriya Sule’s Facebook profile picture is morphed into an empty chair image.
Congress Leader, Aditi Nalawde shared a tweet explaining how the picture was morphed with an empty chair picture from April 2021.
संसदरत्न आदरणीय सुप्रिया ताई @supriya_sule यांचा जो फोटो वापरण्यात आला आहे तो फोटो राष्ट्रवादी काँग्रेस पार्टीच्या सन 2022 मधील एका कार्यक्रमातील आहे. pic.twitter.com/lkLdtYIIyo
— Aditi Nalawde (@adi_nal) September 24, 2022
Conclusion
The claim that Supriya Sule was sitting in CM’s chair is a morphed image.
