{"id":36310,"date":"2019-05-14T20:18:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=36310"},"modified":"2019-05-14T20:18:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:48:53","slug":"photoshopped-narendra-modi-and-indira-gandhi-in-a-group-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/photoshopped-narendra-modi-and-indira-gandhi-in-a-group-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshopped: Narendra Modi and Indira Gandhi in a group photograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A black-and-white image featuring former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, with PM Narendra Modi seen in the frame, has been circulating on messaging platforms. In the photo, PM Modi is seen standing in the background, with Indira Gandhi in the foreground.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-5.24.40-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-5.24.40-PM.png 445w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-5.24.40-PM-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The image has been shared with a message in Gujarati which says, <em>&#8220;Saheb turned out to be a Congressman. What will bhakts now say?&#8221; (translation).\u00a0<\/em>It has been circulated on Facebook as well, with the identical message by individual users.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/modiindira.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/modiindira.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/modiindira-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above post in on the Facebook group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1486159688324138\/permalink\/2501154743491289\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Vote For AIMIM<\/em><\/a>. It has been shared over 5000 times. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SAFarooquii1\/photos\/a.319274581986311\/334176283829474\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another post<\/a> by a user has been shared over 6200 times so far.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Image is photoshopped<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The photograph in question has been digitally altered. In the original picture, Narendra Modi is not present. Upon reverse searching the image, Alt News found an article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/voices\/opinion\/rajkumar-kannada-superstar-who-did-not-join-karnataka-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Quint<\/em><\/a>, titled <em>Karnataka&#8217;s Reluctant Politician: The Life and Times of &#8216;Annavaru&#8217;,\u00a0<\/em>in which the original image was published. The article was dedicated to Kannada superstar Dr. Rajkumar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/rajkumar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/rajkumar.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/rajkumar-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/rajkumar-74x55.jpg 74w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As can be seen in the image above, there is no Narendra Modi anywhere in the frame. The image circulating on WhatsApp is photoshopped.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/juxta_modi_indira-1024x494.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/juxta_modi_indira-1024x494.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/juxta_modi_indira-300x145.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/juxta_modi_indira-768x371.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/juxta_modi_indira-990x478.jpeg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/juxta_modi_indira.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A black-and-white image featuring former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, with PM Narendra Modi seen in the frame, has been circulating on messaging platforms. In the photo, PM Modi is seen standing in the background, with Indira Gandhi in the foreground. The image has been shared with a message in Gujarati which says, &#8220;Saheb turned out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":36316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[132],"class_list":["post-36310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/05\/juxta_modi_indira2.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36328,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310\/revisions\/36328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36310"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=36310"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=36310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}