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| - Fact Check: Fake covers! India Today magazine DID NOT publish these stories on Rahul Gandhi
India Today magazine's November 25 and December 2 covers are about workplace stress and digital scams respectively.
India Today Fact Check
India Today has not published any such cover stories criticizing Rahul Gandhi. The magazine’s November 25 and December 2 editions corroborate these facts.
The Maharashtra elections saw the Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party combine, the Mahayuti, win 235 seats, leaving the Congress, the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray), and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) with just 49. The Congress won only 16 seats.
Following this monumental defeat, two images allegedly featuring recent covers of the India Today magazine were shared widely on social media. These covers criticised Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi.
Both covers featured Rahul Gandhi. The one allegedly published on November 23 reads, “89 Not Out”. The other allegedly from December 2 showed Maharashtra’s map and contained the texts: “Maha Raja of Mishap” and “Maharashtra slips away as Rahul Gandhi redefines leadership... again!” The archives of the viral post can be seen here.
India Today magazine did not publish any such cover stories criticising Rahul Gandhi. The magazine’s November 25 and December 2 editions corroborate these facts.
The dates written on the viral covers are November 23 and December 2. On November 23, the magazine did not publish an edition. India Today is a weekly magazine. New editions are published every Monday. As November 23 was a Saturday, there cannot be a cover with that date. The nearest edition to that was published on November 25.
The cover story on November 25 was about stress at the workplace — nothing to do with Rahul Gandhi or the Maharashtra elections. This clarifies that the cover that referred to Gandhi as the “Maha Raja of Mishap” was doctored.
The December 2 edition of India Today magazine also does not feature a story about the Congress leader. Instead, the cover is about digital scammers and reads, “Beware of the new big con.” Both actual India Today magazine covers can be seen below.
It is thus clear that these covers are fake.
The Maharashtra elections saw the Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party combine, the Mahayuti, win 235 seats, leaving the Congress, the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray), and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) with just 49. The Congress won only 16 seats.
Following this monumental defeat, two images allegedly featuring recent covers of the India Today magazine were shared widely on social media. These covers criticised Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi.
Both covers featured Rahul Gandhi. The one allegedly published on November 23 reads, “89 Not Out”. The other allegedly from December 2 showed Maharashtra’s map and contained the texts: “Maha Raja of Mishap” and “Maharashtra slips away as Rahul Gandhi redefines leadership... again!” The archives of the viral post can be seen here.
India Today magazine did not publish any such cover stories criticising Rahul Gandhi. The magazine’s November 25 and December 2 editions corroborate these facts.
The dates written on the viral covers are November 23 and December 2. On November 23, the magazine did not publish an edition. India Today is a weekly magazine. New editions are published every Monday. As November 23 was a Saturday, there cannot be a cover with that date. The nearest edition to that was published on November 25.
The cover story on November 25 was about stress at the workplace — nothing to do with Rahul Gandhi or the Maharashtra elections. This clarifies that the cover that referred to Gandhi as the “Maha Raja of Mishap” was doctored.
The December 2 edition of India Today magazine also does not feature a story about the Congress leader. Instead, the cover is about digital scammers and reads, “Beware of the new big con.” Both actual India Today magazine covers can be seen below.
It is thus clear that these covers are fake.
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