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| - Fact Check: This video DOESN'T show Rahul Gandhi visiting Ram Mandir after Raebareli nomination
India Today Fact Check found that this video is from February 3, when Rahul visited Baba Baidyanath Dham in Jharkhand's Deoghar during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
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India Today Fact Check
The viral video is from February 3, and shows Rahul Gandhi visiting Baba Baidyanath Dham in Jharkhand’s Deoghar during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
Former Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam on May 6 accused Rahul Gandhi of planning to overturn the Supreme Court verdict of the construction of Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir “once voted to power”. Amid these allegations, a video of Rahul Gandhi donning a pink dhoti and stole, tilak on his forehead, and a garland on his neck, seemingly walking out of a temple is making the rounds on social media. In the clip, chants of “Modi Modi” and “Jai Shri Ram” can be heard.
Sharing the video, many claimed that the video showed people sloganeering against Rahul Gandhi as he visited Ayodhya’s Ram Temple after his Raebareli nomination on May 3.
One person shared the video on Facebook writing, “Seasonal Hindu Rahul Gandhi visits Ayodhya Ram Mandir after filing his nomination from Rae Bareli. Crowds chant Jai Sri Ram, shout Modi Modi.” Its archive can be seen here.
India Today Fact Check found that this video is from February 3, when Rahul visited Baba Baidyanath Dham in Jharkhand’s Deoghar during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
OUR PROBE
We first looked for news reports about Rahul Gandhi visiting Ayodhya after his Raebareli nomination, but could not find any. We then reverse-searched keyframes of the viral video, which led us to a post dated February 3. According to it, the video showed Rahul Gandhi visiting a temple in Deoghar, a city in Jharkhand.
We then found a longer version of this video shared by ANI on February 3. It stated that Rahul Gandhi visited Deoghar’s Baba Baidyanath Dham temple, where people raised slogans of “Narendra Modi Zindabad” and “Rahul Gandhi Zindabad”.
Per reports, Rahul Gandhi visited Baba Baidyanath Dham in Deoghar on February 3 during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Jharkhand. The march began in Manipur on January 14 and entered Jharkhand on February 2. In Deoghar, Gandhi performed “Rudrabhishek” at a temple. There, people chanted “Modi Modi” and “Modi Zindabad” in front of the Congress leader. Videos and photos of his visit to Deoghar were shared by many Congress leaders at the time.
India Today also contacted Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate, who confirmed that Gandhi did not visit the Ayodhya Ram Mandir following his Raebareli nomination. She said, "After his nomination, he flew for a rally in Pune. Wherever he has gone is publicly available on the social media handle of Congress."
It is noteworthy that after his nomination, Rahul Gandhi visited the Lalbai Fulbai temple in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone on May 6. However, there are no reports of people sloganeering against him during this visit.
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