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Photo of the crowd at UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s meeting in Kerala on Sunday

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerned a photograph circulated as showing the crowd at UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s meeting in Kerala, where he flagged off the BJP’s Vijaya Yatra on a Sunday. FACTLY investigated the image itself and concluded it was not from that meeting: it traced the picture to a BJP Foundation Day event in Gujarat in 2015. The review says it used Yandex reverse image search and found the same picture in an Indian Express article from April 2015. That article’s caption identified the scene as more than 25,000 people forming a BJP flag in Dahod while Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel read the party’s “Panch Nishtha pledge” on its 35th foundation day. This provides an earlier, different event and location for the image, rather than evidence of the Kerala gathering. FACTLY also points to a video of the 2015 event and a similar image tweeted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 6 April 2015 as corroboration of the Gujarat provenance. It says visuals of the crowd at Adityanath’s Kerala meeting were available separately. The review therefore distinguishes the misattributed photograph from the actual meeting visuals; the supplied excerpt does not provide further details about those separate visuals.