{"id":103171,"date":"2021-09-14T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T09:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=103171"},"modified":"2021-09-14T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T09:30:41","slug":"tej-pratap-yadav-photo-flute-goat-edited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/tej-pratap-yadav-photo-flute-goat-edited\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of Tej Pratap Yadav dressed as Krishna playing flute to a goat is morphed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A picture of Tej Pratap Yadav has been making the rounds on social media recently. Tej Pratap is the eldest son of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and has also served as a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. In the photo, he is seen playing the flute with a goat standing on the steps below. ABVP student activist Aditya Sharma shared this picture and wrote, &#8220;Somebody tell this ninth-grade dropout that Lord Krishna used to keep cows as pets, not goats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103172 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-22.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-22.jpeg 511w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-22-231x300.jpeg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twitter user Janvi Singh posted this image with the same message. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210910065957\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/Janvisingh132\/status\/1433055994385371146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archive link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\u0915\u094b\u0908 \u0907\u0938 \u0928\u0935\u0935\u0940 \u092b\u0947\u0932 \u0926\u0941\u0917\u094d\u0917\u0932 \u092d\u0948\u092f\u093e \u0915\u094b \u092c\u0924\u093e\u0913 \u0930\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u0936\u094d\u0930\u0940 \u0915\u0943\u0937\u094d\u0923 \u0917\u093e\u092f \u092a\u093e\u0932\u0924\u0947 \u0925\u0947 \u092c\u0915\u0930\u0940 \u0928\u0939\u0940 \ud83d\ude44\ud83d\ude11 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6326v65o4J\">pic.twitter.com\/6326v65o4J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u091c\u093e\u0928\u0935\u0940 \u0938\u093f\u0902\u0939 (@Janvisingh132) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Janvisingh132\/status\/1433055994385371146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is widely shared on <a 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sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4><strong>Fact-check<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Alt News examined Tej Pratap Yadav&#8217;s social media accounts and found that he had shared this picture on his Instagram page on December 4, 2019. However, unlike in the viral picture, there is no goat in the original.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103174 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-23.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-23.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-23-300x221.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-23-768x567.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He had also shared a video similar to the photo on Instagram in January 2020 and June 2020. The clip does not contain the goat either.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBB5o1TA6Dv\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row;align-items: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 40px;margin-right: 14px;width: 40px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 100px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 60px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 50px;margin: 0 auto 12px;width: 50px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 550;line-height: 18px\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row;margin-bottom: 14px;align-items: center\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px;flex-grow: 0;margin-right: 14px;margin-left: 2px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 20px;width: 20px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 2px solid transparent;border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4;border-bottom: 2px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-right: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;flex-grow: 0;height: 12px;width: 16px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-left: 8px solid transparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center;margin-bottom: 24px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 224px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 144px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 17px;margin-bottom: 0;margin-top: 8px;overflow: hidden;padding: 8px 0 7px;text-align: center\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 17px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBB5o1TA6Dv\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Tej Pratap Yadav (@tejpratapyadavrjd)<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We performed a reverse image search of the goat in the viral photo on Yandex and found it on a website called Top PNG. According to the website, this picture was published on April 23, 2019. It is noteworthy that the file format of this image is a PNG, which means it has a transparent background and can easily be placed or added onto another image.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103175 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-24.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-24.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-24-300x197.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/word-image-24-768x504.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This means that a user had inserted a PNG of a goat onto an image posted by Tej Pratap Yadav on his Instagram. 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