Fact-Check: Uttarakhand minister revolts against BJP before elections?

Just as assembly elections approaches next year, BJP suffered a blow when two politicians from Uttarakhand Yashpal Arya and Sanjeev Arya left the party, resigned from their seats and joined Congress. They are a father and son duo. 

Amidst this, an image of BJP politician Rekha Arya started to go viral on Facebook. An image of Rekha Arya painting a lotus on the wall along with the words “Our mistake, the lotus flower”. Implying that she too is leaving the party. 

Fact-Check:

However after performing reverse image checks and keyword search we found the original image posted on Rekha Arya’s verified Facebook account. 

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