Jungle Raaj of Nitish Kumar Returned to Bihar, Image going viral. Read the Fact-Check

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After the expansion of new cabinet of  Nitish Kumar government in Bihar, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has continuously alleged that Jungle Raaj has returned to Bihar. Amid this, an image is going viral on social media platforms, showing #Bihar CM Nitish Kumar with the captions related to Jungle Raaj in Bihar. Users on social media are firecely sharing this image claiming that Jungle Raaj has returned in Bihar under the coalition of JDU and RJD.

Official twitter account of BJP Bihar posted an image on Twitter and wrote: “Bihar is doing trahimam… criminals running Bullets are raining in the streets, scuffles are happening on the streets! #JungleRajReturns #CrimeRateHigh”.

Source: Twitter

A user by the name of Sima Sanatani posted the image with the same caption.

Source: Twitter

Moreover, several users are sharing this image with similar claims on the Internet.

Source: Twitter
Source: Twitter
Source: Twitter

Fact-Check

To verify the claims of the above viral image, the DRFAC team reverse-searched some keywords related to this viral image on Google. We didn’t find any information associated with this image. Not only this, but we also examined the social media handles of Dainik Jagran including its official website. We found that Dainik Jagran didn’t publish any news or blog post related to this viral image.

Conclusion

The DFRAC’s Fact Check proves that viral image is misleading since Dainik Jagran(@JagranNews) has not publish any news or blog post related to this image on its social media handles including its official website.