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India Today Fact Check found that the viral video is from an October 24 event and PM Modi departed from Russia on October 23.
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India Today Fact Check
The viral video is from an October 24 event. But PM Modi left Russia on October 23.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Russia from October 22 to 23 to attend the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, where he held bilateral talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and several world leaders. In its aftermath, a video from the event began making the rounds online that showed world leaders gathered for the photograph. PM Modi, however, was nowhere to be seen.
Sharing this video, many claimed that Putin did not invite the Indian Pm for this photo-op, calling it an “international insult”. One such post’s archive can be seen here.
India Today Fact Check found that the viral video, while from the BRICS Summit, was shot on October 24. Modi had left for India the day before.
Our Probe
Reverse searching keyframes from the viral video led us to an October 24 post on the news agency ANI’s official X account. It read: “Russia: EAM Dr S Jaishankar with Heads of delegations at Kazan Expo International Exhibition Center, at the 16th BRICS Summit in BRICS plus format.”
The plenary session of the 16th BRICS Summit in the BRICS-plus format was attended by leaders from the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as delegations from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and international organisations.
Subsequent keyword searches led us to multiple news reports that said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar represented Modi at the BRICS Plus event in Kazan on October 24. The event was attended by Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan. Jaishankar led the Indian delegation at this event as Modi had returned to India on October 23 after the main sessions of the Summit.
We also found a video on ANI’s X account from October 23 where PM Modi can be seen boarding an aeroplane. The post said: “Prime Minister Narendra Modi emplanes for Delhi after attending the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia.” This made it clear that when the BRICS Plus event took place on October 24, Modi was not in Russia at that time.
For more information, we checked the PM’s social media accounts and found that he last posted about the Summit on October 23, when he shared a video showing the event’s highlights. We did not find any posts related to the Summit from October 24 or 25.
The PM in fact shared photos of his meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on October 25 at his residence in New Delhi.
Thus, it is clear that by the time the photo-op seen in the viral video took place at the BRICS Summit on October 24, Modi had already arrived in India.
(Written by Ashish Kumar)
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