“The viral photo shows Swami Chinmayanand and Manohar Lal Dhakad campaigning in Bihar for Maithili Thakur of BJP.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 17 Oct 2025.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The viral photo is edited. The heads of Swami Chinmayanand and Manohar Lal Dhakad were superimposed onto the original photo of Maithili Thakur joining the BJP, where Dilip Jaiswal and Amit Prakash Bablu were actually present. The original photo was posted on Dainik Bhaskar’s Instagram on 14 October 2025.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 17 October 2025. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 23 October 2025, 6 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/DP-_NNvkuuo/
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