A 22-second clip showing a sea of people is being widely shared on social media as the crowd at a rally of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
Premium subscribed X (formerly Twitter) user दिव्या कुमारी (@divyakumaari) shared the above-mentioned clip on April 11 with a caption in Hindi which said, “This crowd in support of Rahul Gandhi will give Modi Ji sleepless nights #LokSabaElection2024”.
राहुल गाँधी के समर्थन मे ये जन सैलाब मोदी जी की नींद हराम कर देगा #LokSabaElection2024
— दिव्या कुमारी (@divyakumaari) April 11, 2024
Another premium subscribed X user, Jeetu Burdak (@Jeetuburdak), shared the same video with a caption in Hindi that can be translated as: “Is this mass gathering a sign of the end of the dictator…?”
The tweet has been viewed over 5 lakh views and has been retweeted over 3,100 times.
ये जनसैलाब तानाशाह के अंत की इशारा है…?🔥 pic.twitter.com/Xi5Herh0U2
— Jeetu Burdak (@Jeetuburdak) April 9, 2024
Several other users on X shared the same video with the same claim.
Fact Check
After breaking down the video into several key frames, we ran a reverse image search on a few of them. This led us to an Instagram reel shared by the handle @hosanna_fellowship_official on March 11 which carried the now-viral video. The caption said: “#glory to for Successfully completion of 47th International Feast of Tabernacle from Hosanna ministries”.
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Below is a comparison of the frames in the viral video and the above video.
On running a relevant keyword search on YouTube we found a video titled: “HOSANNA MINISTRIES 47th FEAST OF TABERNACLES HIGHLIGHTS” posted by the channel HOSANNA MINISTRIES OFFICIAL. The video contained visuals of the crowd similar to the viral video and the Instagram reel.
Feast of Tabernacles, also called ‘Gudarala Panduga’, is an annual Christian festival which is organised by Hosanna Ministries in Andhra Pradesh.
We found another YouTube video posted by Hosanna Ministries Kurnool titled: “Hosanna 47th Gudaarala Panduga 2024 | Feast of Tabernacles – Hosanna Ministries”. The video was posted on March 7. The event was held from March 7 to March 10 at Gorantla, Guntur in Andhra Pradesh.
Hence, the claim that the viral video shows a crowd gathered for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is false. The video is from March 2024 from an annual Christian event organised by Hosanna Ministries in Andhra Pradesh,
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