{"id":26577,"date":"2019-01-24T16:25:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=26577"},"modified":"2019-01-24T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T11:31:15","slug":"congress-uses-2011-image-to-portray-pm-modis-constituency-varanasi-in-poor-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/congress-uses-2011-image-to-portray-pm-modis-constituency-varanasi-in-poor-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress uses 2011 image to portray PM Modi&#8217;s constituency Varanasi in poor state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official Twitter handle of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/INCManipur\/status\/1087977913495027712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manipur Congress<\/a> tweeted a collage of four images on January 23 to showcase development in Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s turf Amethi and regression in PM Modi&#8217;s constituency Varanasi under the last 4.5 years of BJP government. <em>&#8220;While PM Modi &amp; the BJP govt. may not care for the contribution of HAL, the people of Amethi are proud of the HAL division in their district &#8211; which provides employment for 1100 skilled workers &amp; 200 engineers. <s>#<\/s>AmethiKiPragati,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>wrote Manipur Congress.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26580 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/cong-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/cong-2.png 404w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/cong-2-204x300.png 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This tweet was made at 1:08 PM and soon after,\u00a0General secretary and social media in-charge of Mahila Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChitraSarwara\/status\/1087980848316600320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chitra Sarwara<\/a> also tweeted the same set of images.\u00a0<em>&#8220;\u0915\u093e\u092e \u0915\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0939\u0948- @RahulGandhi \u092c\u0938 \u0928\u093e\u092e \u0915\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0939\u0948 -@narendramodi (Has done work &#8211; @RahulGandhi Has only promoted his name &#8211; @narendramodi),&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>read her tweet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26582 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/ciyt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/ciyt.png 400w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/ciyt-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/INCHimachal\/status\/1087991014609076224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Himachal Congress<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/INCUttarakhand\/status\/1088128648064856064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uttarakhand Congress<\/a>\u00a0also tweeted the identical\u00a0collage.<\/p>\n<h2>Old images<\/h2>\n<p>Upon reverse-searching the images, Alt News found that the one on the bottom-right dates back to at least 2011. A website\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterandmegacities.org:80\/where-are-the-roads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water and Megacities<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>had included the photograph in one of its articles on Varanasi, published on July 28, 2011. Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iAnkurSingh\/status\/1088334490626252801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ankur Singh<\/a> had pointed this out. The website is now <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120402224938\/http:\/\/www.waterandmegacities.org\/where-are-the-roads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unavailable<\/a> although a Google search still throws up the article.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26583 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/where-are-the-roads.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/where-are-the-roads.png 637w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/where-are-the-roads-300x60.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also found that the image was used in an article about potholes published by <em>Dainik Jagran\u00a0<\/em>in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jagran.com\/news\/spotlight-ban-should-removed-from-stones-9713092.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26593 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/image.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/image-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/image-768x402.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/image-1024x536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/image-990x518.jpeg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since the photograph exists on the internet prior to 2014, it cannot be attributed to poor governance under the last 4.5 years of BJP&#8217;s rule.<\/p>\n<p>The other image used by Congress (top-right) is also an old picture, even though it does not date back prior to 2014. We found that the image is a screengrab\u00a0of a video posted in American stock photo agency <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/video\/clip-11473799-varanasi-india---20-february-2015-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shutterstock<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26585 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/old2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/old2.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/old2-270x300.jpeg 270w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/old2-768x853.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congress, therefore, used old images to target BJP by portraying that the party hasn&#8217;t contributed to development initiatives in PM Modi&#8217;s constituency, Varanasi, in the last 4.5 years. Earlier, BJP had used old images (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/bjp-bihar-passes-off-a-2009-image-as-its-development-project-in-the-last-5-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/10yearschallenge-bjp-karnataka-tweets-three-sets-of-images-get-all-three-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2<\/a>,) to portray infrastructural projects completed under PM&#8217;s Modi&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official Twitter handle of Manipur Congress tweeted a collage of four images on January 23 to showcase development in Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s turf Amethi and regression in PM Modi&#8217;s constituency Varanasi under the last 4.5 years of BJP government. &#8220;While PM Modi &amp; the BJP govt. may not care for the contribution of HAL, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":26589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-26577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-politics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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