Modi-lookalike’s video falsely shared as PM called out in Rourkela over LPG crisis

A video, roughly 9 seconds in length, is viral on social media. It purports to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a convoy, in what appears to be a roadshow. A voice can be heard in the background complaining about the unavailability of cooking cylinders: “Gas nahi hai sir, kya karenge humlog?” (There is no gas, sir, what shall we do?)

X user @KhelaHobePart2 posted the clip claiming that the video, from Rourkela, showed a by-stander in a roadshow calling out the Prime Minister for the LPG shortage, leaving onlookers amused. (Archive)

Anti-national shouting

Gas nahi mil raha hai, gas nahi mil raha hai 😂 pic.twitter.com/CUYBErGOOK

— SDutta (@KhelaHobePart2) April 1, 2026

Several users, like Verified handle India With Congress, @ShadowSakshi, @YadavManish1001, @Girijeshv, @TelanganaGalam_ and others also circulated the clip on X, claiming that it showed PM Modi being heckled during a roadshow. (Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4)

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The clip was also viral on Instagram with the same claim, seeing massive circulation.

Kal Tak (@kaltakdigital.in) a news outlet, posted the clip on April 1. It had been viewed more than 4 million times at the time of this article being written.

Several other Instagram users, like @millattimes, @indianfeed24hrs, @okindians, @m_khan.122, @p5news_up also posted the clip alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently been in Rourkela, where he was asked about the LPG crisis by a by-stander.

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Fact Check

At first glance, the security personnel in the video appear markedly different from the security detail typically seen accompanying Prime Minister Narendra Modi during public appearances.

Hence to verify the authenticity of the viral video, we broke it down into keyframes.

A reverse image search led us to this Instagram reel, which indicated that the incident, from Rourkela, Odisha, featured a lookalike of PM Modi.

 

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Several other Instagram users, like (@trendylast24hr), (@desh), (@_indiansinfo_), and others, also wrote that the clip featured a lookalike, and not the Prime Minister himself.

We tried to geolocate the place shown in the viral clip and found that the reel had indeed been shot in Rourkela.

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Taking cue from this, we ran relevant keyword searches, and came across this YouTube video, uploaded by Odisha-based TV news channel Kalinga TV, on September 27, 2025. It features a person named Sadananda Naik, who is interviewed for being a splitting image of Narendra Modi.

We found another Instagram reel, featuring Mr. Naik, where he says that he had started attending to his beard around 2017, after being told by his acquaintances that he resembled Narendra Modi.

 

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We also found out that the Prime Minister had last visited Odisha on September 27, 2025, to mark the inauguration of several projects in the town of Jharsuguda. This is the same location where Mr. Naik was interviewed by reporters of Kalinga TV.

Since then, PM Modi has not been to Odisha.

To sum up, the person taking part in a roadshow in Rourkela was not the Prime Minister, but his lookalike Sadananda Naik, who had previously gained media attention for resembling the Prime Minister.