The Minister of the Interior of the Union, Amit Shah, said at a rally last week that Rahul Gandhi would go to Bangkok after the announcement of the results of the Lok Sabha elections. PM Modi made a similar statement last week. Now a pass with the name of the chief of the congress has become viral. But it’s transformed
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The great Indian election is over. The results are now one day. If we believe the exit polls, the National Democratic Alliance led by Narendra Modi returns to power for the third time with a majority. This is not good news for Congress, which is part of the India (Indian National Development Inclusive Alliance Bloc) opposition. The India alliance should obtain less than 200 seats, according to most outing polls.
If the congress cannot have an impact, questions will be raised again about the future of the party and its leadership. In the midst of all this, rumors began to bring together steam according to which Rahul Gandhi will leave the country on June 5, one day after the announcement of the electoral results of Lok Sabha.
We examine how the buzz started and the truth behind.
A viral boarding pass
An image of a boarding card began to go around on social networks this weekend. The Vistara boarding collar has the name of Rahul Gandhi on it. He showed the leader of the congress deploying on June 5 in Thailand in business class.
The legend on the image shared by the user X “Mme Manral (Moda Ka Pariwar)” said: “Rahul Gandhi’s Flight ✈️ Ticket for the 5 – 2024 Business Class Vistara Airlines 😲🤔”.
Rahul Gandhi Ticket ✈️ for June 5 – 2024 Business Class Vista Airlines 😲🤔 pic.twitter.com/sdggnkc6ng
– Ms. Manral (Moda Ka Pariwar) (@ msmanral2) June 1, 2024
Another user shared the photo on X and commented: “Rahul Gandhi fled to Bangkok on June 5.”
The results will be announced on June 4 and exit survey forecasts are not very promising for the congress party.
That’s wrong
There is no price to guess that the boarding pass is tampered with.
Fact verification website BOOM Pointed towards several deviations on the boarding pass. There are two different flight numbers mentioned on the pass: “UK121” and “UK115”.
Another website News Performed an inverted image search for the photo. This led them to a similar image published on Livefromalounge.comAn online portal on aviation and travel trends.
The image was part of a column published on August 7, 2019 by Ajay Awtaney, the founder and editor -in -chief of chief Livefromalounge. Awtaney wrote on the first international flight from Vistara de Delhi in Singapore five years ago. “Having piloted the first flight from Vistara at the national level in 2015, it was an agreement concluded that I was also going to pilot them internationally during the first flight. Finally, the airline announced international operations in July 2019, and the first international flight was operated between Delhi and Singapore yesterday (August 6, 2019), on which I stole, “he wrote.
After a comparison of the two images, the two websites for verifying the facts concluded that it was the Awtaney pension pass that was transformed. He said BOOM“Yes, it was Vistara’s first international flight, and I was on board. It seems that anyone edited the photo forgot to change the flight number in one of the two places where it was listed on the boarding pass. »»
Amit Shah and PM Modi’s Affirmations
Last week, the Minister of the Interior of the Union, Amit Shah, said that after the announcement of the results of Lok Sabha on June 4, Gandhi would blame the EVMs for the loss of his party, then would reserve tickets For Bangkok for a vacation.
During a Uttar Pradesh Deoria rally, Shah said: “On June 4, the voting count will start at 7 am. The photo will become clear at 1 p.m. … at 3 p.m., Rahul Gandhi will hold a press conference to blame the EVMs for their loss … “
“His tickets for June 6 are reserved and he will leave for Bangkok, Thailand, for a vacation,” he added.
A few weeks earlier, Narendra Modi also struck Rahul Gandhi and the party leader Samajwadi Akhilesh Yadav, saying that they would leave the country for holidays after the results. “Let the” Shehzada “be of Lucknow (Yadva) or Delhi (Gandhi), he will leave abroad for a summer holiday Khatakhat Khatakhat,” said the PM, while he was referring to a victory for The NDA during a rally in the Uttar Pradesh in Pradesh.
The Minister of the Union and head of the BJP, Giriraj Singh, also said last week that Gandhi would likely go on vacation abroad after the results. “In the sixth phase, we are about to touch the 400 mark and in the seventh phase, we will cross the brand 400 and that day, Akhilesh Yadav will sing songs and Rahul Gandhi will go for his trips abroad , because no option will be left for them. This country wants a strong government, not a compulsory government, ”he was cited Ani.
Gandhi’s trips have often made the headlines with BJP leaders targeting it repeatedly.
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