{"id":5256,"date":"2019-04-20T17:29:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T11:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2019-04-20T17:29:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T11:59:16","slug":"fact-check-is-this-really-a-picture-of-the-bjps-rally-in-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/fact-check-is-this-really-a-picture-of-the-bjps-rally-in-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Is this really a picture of the BJP’s rally in Kolkata?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis is not sand in front of the two bald heads. it is human crowd at the BJP Kolkata rally. Yesterday was an unusual day in Kolkata. Modi ji was in town! Mamta B was not! On the vast Brigade Ground was a massive crowd of 10+ lakh Karyakartas(figure given by the Kolkata Police)\u201d<\/em>, reads a\u00a0message<\/a>posted along with an image purportedly of a rally that was addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah in Kolkata. Modi visited Kolkata for an election campaign rally on April 3.<\/p>\n

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Several other individuals on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0have claimed that this was the scene at the recent Modi-Shah rally in Kolkata.<\/p>\n

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Photoshopped image<\/h2>\n

Alt News had debunked this morphed image earlier when it was shared as that of a\u00a0\u201ctsunami of supporters\u201d<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in a Modi-Shah rally.\u00a0Alt News was able to trace back the image to December 2017 when PM Modi and Amit Shah were sharing dais in Shimla. The event was the swearing-in ceremony of Himachal Pradesh CM Jai Ram Thakur.<\/p>\n

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PM Shri @narendramodi<\/a> at the swearing-in ceremony of the Council of Ministers of the Himachal Pradesh Government in Shimla. pic.twitter.com\/6vdGNfHOm4<\/a><\/p>\n

— BJP LIVE (@BJPLive) December 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n