Rahul Gandhi posts old photo of Kisan Mahapanchayat, slammed for sharing fake news

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was trolled on social media on Monday after he reportedly shared an old photo of the farmers' mahapanchayat.

Taking to Twitter, Rahul Gandhi shared a photograph of the mammoth gathering at the Mahapanchayat. He went captioned the photo, saying that those who shape the country's destiny are undeterred and unafraid.

The message was pro-farmer, but the photograph is what has landed the Wayanad MP in trouble.

Turns out, the photograph was not from Sunday's Mahapanchayat, but from a similar gathering in February earlier this year.

While some were quick to point out that the photo was not from Sunday's Mahapanchayat, others wanted Twitter to mark the post as manipulated media.

This is not the first time Congress party and Rahul Gandhi's social media utterances have come under criticism.

Rahul's social media post last week in which he suggested that the central government had trampled upon Article 15 and 25 of the Constitution dragged him into controversy. 

While Article 15 safeguards against discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth, Article 25 guarantees freedom of religion to all persons in India. 

Rahul's Twitter post had a video that included the fake news about the incident involving an elderly Muslim man being allegedly forced to chant Jai Shri Ram and his beard was cut off in Loni.

A fortnight ago, Rahul again found himself in the firing line when he targetted the government citing a media report which claimed that China had against crossed the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh at several places.

The story was labelled as fake news by the Indian Army. 

• Fake news
• Kisan Mahapanchayat
• Rahul Gandhi
• social media
• Congress