A video of union textile minister Giriraj Singh is viral on social media, where he is seen carrying four posters showing former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with different women. The photos also have some text on them in Hindi and English which criticize Nehru's political stance on Kashmir.
What the BJP leader told journalists while displaying the posters could be translated as this: "India's dignity has not been torn apart today; the Congress Party has been doing so since Nehru's time. Nehru, to fulfill his ambitions and desires, mortgaged Kashmir, went to the United Nations, and gave away PoK. Secondly, he surrendered into the arms of the British. Nehru surrendered himself. Moreover, they are celebrating after Babasaheb Ambedkar lost the election. These two photos say it all; I don't want to say anything more. Rahul Gandhi should apologize to the country, and Narendra Modi has raised India's stature in the world."
The posters can be seen clearly in the following image. There are five different photos in the posters.
X page @NewsArenaIndia also posted the same video on February 10 with the following caption: "'Nehru insulted the nation for personal ambitions.' - Union Minister Giriraj Singh shows photos of Nehru in Parliament complex". (Archive)
Several other X users and pages, such as @MeghUpdates and @SheetalPronamo, amplified the same video.
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Fact Check
The poster in Singh's right hand has a collage of three images.
Upon running a relevant keyword search related to image in the middle, we came across a BBC report from 2017 containing a photo gallery on the works of India's first woman photojournalist, Homai Vyarawalla. The last image in this gallery is the same as the one in the middle of the collage. It's a photo of Nehu with his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. (Alternatively spelt in some documents as Vijalalakshmi or Vijayalaxmi)
The gallery also includes the image that is in the poster in Giriraj Singh's left hand. Singh's poster claims Nehru is seen lighting a cigarette for Edwina Mountbatten. However, in the BBC gallery, the caption of the photo says, "Mr Nehru lights a cigarette for the wife of a British diplomat".
To find more information about this image, we ran a reverse image search on this photograph. This led us to several news reports and fact checks from the past, some of which revealed that the woman in the image is Mrs Simon, the wife of a British diplomat in 1960.
Coming back to the collage, the image on the left also shows Nehru hugging his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. This was reported by Alt News in 2017, as well as by Outlook in 2024.
This photo has been shared several times with various claims, including efforts by the BJP to discredit the former Prime Minister. Multiple outlets have fact-checked such claims.
The third picture on the collage is from 1955 when Nehru was received at the London Airport by United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, then India's high commissioner to the UK. The woman giving a peck on the Indian Prime Minister's cheek is Pandit's daughter and Nehru's niece, Nayantara Sahagal.
The same footage can be seen at the 00.27-minute mark in the following YouTube video shared by the vintage television company, British Pathé, on their YouTube channel:
The image is also available on alamy.
The one remaining image is of a man resembling Jawaharlal Nehru hugging a woman. When we performed a reverse image search with it, it did not yield any result. This suggests that the image may have been recently generated and has no precedence on the internet. There is no prior record or archival reference of it.
When we looked closely at it, it became clear that it is not an authentic photo of the former Prime Minister. Below is a side-by-side comparison of Nehru's image and the image in the poster. Some facial features of the man in the poster -- the jawline and nose for example -- are markedly different from those of Jawaharlal Nehru. This indicates that this particular image is most likely digitally created or artificially generated.
When we checked the authenticity of the image on a AI content detection platform, the result showed an 89% chance of it being AI generated.
To sum up, the images of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru displayed by Giriraj Singh outside the Parliament do not say what the Union minister claims. They are not indicative of Nehru's alliance with the British in any way. Three of the photos are of Nehru with his sister and niece. One of him with the wife of a foreign diplomat. And the other is most likely a digitally generated photo.
As pointed out earlier, most of these images have gone viral multiple times and have been fact-checked on several occasions. Alt News fact-checked four of them in 2017.
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