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“Recent pictures of PM Modi and Yogi Adityanath offering prayers at a mosque ahead of the UP Elections results on 10 March 2022”
Social media posts Claim dated 17 Feb 2022.
FACTLY rated thisMISLEADING

What FACTLY found

he photos shared in the post were taken in 2018 when PM Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath visited the Sant Kabir Das mausoleum in Maghar, Uttar Pradesh. On 28 June 2018, marking the 500th death anniversary of the poet, PM Modi and Yogi Adityanath visited Kabir Das mausoleum and offered chadar on Kabir Das’s Mazar. The photos shared in the post are old and not related to the ongoing UP Elections

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In short

This claim spread on social media around 17 February 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 18 February 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.

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