{"id":35938,"date":"2019-05-11T22:39:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T17:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=35938"},"modified":"2019-05-12T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T05:15:57","slug":"fact-check-did-gautam-gambhir-use-a-body-double-for-his-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fact-check-did-gautam-gambhir-use-a-body-double-for-his-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-check: Did Gautam Gambhir use a body double for his election campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photograph related to BJP’s East Delhi candidate Gautam Gambhir’s campaign trail has gone viral on social media. In the image, Gambhir can be seen seated on the front passenger seat while an unidentified man is standing on top of the vehicle and waving at the crowd. It is being claimed that Gambhir had hired a doppelganger who was campaigning on his behalf. Aam Aadmi Party supporter Kapil tweeted the photo claiming that Gambhir had “hired a ‘duplicate’ to stand for him in the heat and campaign for him!”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Chowkidar @GautamGambhir<\/a> hired a ‘duplicate’ to stand for him in the heat and campaign for him!<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Kapil (@kapsology) May 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AAP social media head also quote-tweeted Kapil’s tweet with a comment, “2 \u0935\u094b\u091f\u0930 \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0921 – 2 \u0917\u094c\u0924\u092e \u0917\u0902\u092d\u0940\u0930 (2 voter card -2 Gautam Gambhir -translated)”.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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2 \u0935\u094b\u091f\u0930 \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0921 – 2 \u0917\u094c\u0924\u092e \u0917\u0902\u092d\u0940\u0930 https:\/\/t.co\/4ussDPfiZe<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Deshbhakt Ankit Lal (@AnkitLal) May 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Joint Secretary of AAP, Akshay Marathe went a step further by tweeting<\/a> a collage of photos to suggest that a Congress leader named Gaurav Arora was campaigning for Gambhir as a “stunt double”.\u00a0<\/em>Another AAP supporter Durgesh Pathak also made the identical claim posting<\/a> the same images. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia also quote-tweeted a tweet by Pathak taking potshots at Gambhir and his party for allegedly using a “duplicate”\u00a0<\/em>in order to avoid the heat. Kundan Kumar, a journalist with Hindi news channel TV9 Bharatvarsh,\u00a0<\/em>was one of the earliest to tweet<\/a> the image.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) May 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fact-check<\/h2>\n

Alt News found that the man claimed to be Gambhir’s ‘duplicate’ has had a long association with the BJP candidate. The individual’s name is Gaurav Arora. We found multiple pictures and videos of Arora where he is flanked by Gautam Gambhir. These pictures date back to the time before Gambhir joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.<\/p>\n

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Was Gaurav Arora posing as a body double for Gambhir?<\/h2>\n

Alt News was able to access multiple pictures of Gambhir’s rally from the same spot as the viral picture. We tried to ascertain whether Arora’s hand waving as can be seen in the viral image was a one-off thing, or whether he was indeed posing as the candidate. In the picture below, Gaurav Arora can be seen standing on top of an open jeep and waving at the crowd. As opposed to the picture that is viral on social media, here Arora is seen waving in the opposite direction. It can also be observed that besides Arora, no one else is waving at the crowd.<\/p>\n

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In the gallery below, you can see multiple pictures from the same spot, where atop the vehicle Arora kept waving at the crowd.<\/p>\n