FAKE ALERT: Photo of Modi bowing in front of Nehru’s statue is doctored

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Sharing some glimpses from the newly inaugurated Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra. https://t.co/bhGF3saejr — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 1596903651000

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Photo of PM Narendra Modi bowing in front of India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru ’s statue is doing the rounds on social networking platform Facebook.Congress-supporting pages and other users are posting this photo to take a dig at PM Modi by claiming that he has finally realized the greatness of Nehru.The photo is a digitally-manipulated version of the original photo where Modi bows down to a Mahatma Gandhi statue.Using reverse-image search, we found the original photo tweeted by the official handle of Narendra Modi.The photo was clicked in August, 2020, when Modi inaugurated Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra.“Sharing some glimpses from the newly inaugurated Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra,” tweeted Modi, posting an image of him bowing in front of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue.Times Fact Check has found that the viral photo of PM Modi bowing in front of Nehru’s statue is a digitally morphed version of the original photo where he bows down to Mahatma Gandhi.