A picture of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP from Baramati Supriya Sule is getting viral on social media. In which she can be seen sitting on the chair of the Chief Minister. She is accompanied by a former cabinet minister. Rajesh Tope and NCP leader Dilip Walse Patil are in the picture.
Sharing the picture, Shiv Sena spokesperson Sheetal Mhatre wrote in Marathi on her Twitter account. Who is sitting on whose chair?” (English Translation)
Many other users are sharing this picture with a similar claim-
Fact check:
To analyze the viral picture, DFRAC first did a reverse search image of the picture. During this time, the team found this picture in a tweet made by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson Claude Crasto.
Clyde Crasto shared the two pictures and wrote-
The picture of Ms. Supriya Sule posted by @sheetalmhatre1 is a Fake image with clear intentions to ruin her image. @MahaCyber1, the @MumbaiPolice should act immediately. #SheetalMhatre should apologiZe to Ms. Sule and delete the tweet or @NCPspeaks will take legal action.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Prashant Sudamrao Jagtap also tweeted and demanded an apology from Sheetal Mhatre. He wrote in his tweet in Marathi – Mindhe Gat’s Bhitra Tai, please see the photo below. He tendered an unconditional apology for posting a morphed picture and defaming message against a woman Member of Parliament. @MahaCyber1, @DGPMaharashtra (Timid Tai of the Mindhe group, please refer to the picture below. to publish defaming content by editing a picture about a woman MP).
Giving information about the picture, Aditi Nalawade said- that the Prime Minister of the country, Honorable Narendra Ji Modi, explained the measures to deal with the spread of Covid-19 (1/2) through video conferencing on 23 April 2021. The meeting was attended by the then Chief Minister of Maha Vikas Aghadi of the state, Honorable Uddhav Thackeray Saheb from Varsha’s official residence and the meeting was attended by the Health Minister Rajesh Tope and Honorable Chief Minister Dilip Walse-Patil. Ministry. This is the picture of that time.
In another Tweet, he wrote- “the picture used by honourable MP Supriya Tai Supriya Sule is from a Nationalist Congress Party event in the year 2022.”
Conclusion:
It is clear from the verification of DFRAC that the viral picture is edited.
