“A group photo of Mahatma Gandhi when he served as a Sergeant Major of the British army”
What FACTLY found
The image shared in the post shows Mahatma Gandhi posing along with the Passive Resistors Football Club players and staff in South Africa, in 1913. During his two-decade stay in South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi started two football clubs with the name ‘Passive Resistors’. Mahatma Gandhi started these football clubs to use sports venues as a platform to campaign his non-violent political views and issues related to racial discrimination. During the second Boer war in South Africa, Gandhi raised a ...
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 26 May 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 2 June 2022, 7 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
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