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FACTLYPolitics & government

Image of PM Modi with tonsured head and clean shave after his mother’s death on 30 December 2022

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim is that an image showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a tonsured head and clean-shaven face depicts him after his mother, Heeraben Modi, died on 30 December 2022. The review says the image was being shared as evidence that he had shaved his head in observance of Hindu customs. It examined both Modi’s appearance in footage and photographs from after the death and the history of the viral image. The review reports that it searched for recent visuals and found a live-streamed video on Modi’s official YouTube channel. In that video, he addressed the 108th Indian Science Congress by video conference on 3 January 2023, and the review says he appeared with his regular beard and hair. It also points to other public-meeting footage and photographs after 30 December, including a post about his meeting with Air Marshal PV Iyer on 31 December; these likewise did not show him with a shaved head and beard. The image’s earlier circulation further undermines the claim that it shows a change following the death. The review says the same image had circulated as a meme since at least January 2021, and that the original photograph was taken during the Parliament winter session in December 2017. On the evidence described, the image does not establish that Modi shaved his head after his mother’s death; the review identifies it as morphed.

YouturnPolitics & government

‘திடீர் மாநிலத்தலைவர்’ மீது பாரம்பரிய ஆன்மீக ஆட்கள் அதிருப்தியில் இருப்பதற்குக் காரணம் என்ன என்று விசாரித்தபோது ஜிலீர் ரக தகவல்களாகக் கொட்டுகின்றன. காதலர் தினக் கொண்டாட்டங்களையே கடுமையாக எதிர்க்கக்கூடிய ஒரு கட்சியில் தன்பால் ஈர்ப்பை எப்படி ஏற்றுக் கொள்வார்கள்? அதுவும் இது தனிப்பட்ட வாழ்க்கையின் பாலியல் தேர்வாய் இருந்தாலும் பரவாயில்லை. கட்சிக்குள்ளேயே கர்நாடகத்தைச் சேர்ந்த இளம் புயலிலிருந்து தன் தலைமையின் கீழ் பணிபுரியக்கூடிய இளைஞர்கள் வரை பலருடன் பாத்தி கட்டி விளையாடி வருகிறாராம் இந்த விவசாயி.

Publisher’s rating: Fake