A photo is viral on social media, purporting to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacting with women workers at a tea garden amid elaborate filming arrangements, flanked on all sides by several cameras.
As Assam gears up for assembly polls starting April 9, the Prime Minister recently visited the state for campaigning. On April 1, he visited the Manohari Tea Estate in Dibrugarh, and interacted with the women workers there by plucking tea leaves with them. The PM himself shared a video from his tea-garden visit. The video is being shared in this context.
Former Indian cricketer and Trinamool Congress MP Kirti Azad (@KirtiAzaad) posted the photo on X, which, at the time of this article being written, has been viewed more than 50,000 times. He claimed that the Prime Minister’s visit to the tea garden was not unscripted, but planned in advance for reasons of self-aggrandisement. He also highlighted that PM Modi had planned such an elaborate and expensive photoshoot in the midst of a raging LPG crisis. (Archive).
He has surpassed #AmitabhBachchan and #Rajinikanth. He acting and dramatics is un parallel.
The stage is perfectly set. This is not impromptu but by design.
Look at what goes behind the scenes. It is set to perfection.
People struggling in LPG lines, but #VishGuru spends… pic.twitter.com/NfDiIy5BYD
— Kirti Azad (@KirtiAzaad) April 4, 2026
Another X user, @Jasmine01737661, posted the photo, with the same claim. (Archive)
அஸ்ஸாமில் தேர்தல் பிரச்சாரத்துக்காக சென்ற மோடிஜி, அங்கு ஷூட்டிங் நடத்தும் ஸ்டைல்! உலகமே வியந்து பாராட்டுகிறது! pic.twitter.com/vCJeZDT89r
— மல்லிகை மணாளன் (தமிழ் குடும்பம்) (@Jasmine01737661) April 3, 2026
The photo was shared with similar claims by X users Mlike uralidharan Gopal (@muralitwit), Abhishek Dutt (@duttabhishek) and Sanjay Hegde (@sanjayuvacha), among others. (Archives: 1, 2, 3)
Fact Check
By looking closely at the image, we were able to identify several tell-tale signs of image manipulation.
First, the man who is depicted as the Prime Minister does not resemble Narendra Modi.
Next, the texts on the various signages and the clapboard in the photo are all garbled, which is a typical feature of AI-generated images.
Moreover, the group of people encircling the purported photo-op appear blurred and artificially rendered, including the cameramen stationed on top of bamboo-stages.
Thereafter, we ran the photo through Hive’s AI detection tool, which showed a 99.9% possibility of it being artificially generated.
To sum up, the viral photo, claiming to show an elaborate photo-op during Prime Minister Modi’s recent visit to a Dibrugarh tea estate, is not genuine. It has been artificially generated.
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