“These photos show Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi seated in prominent positions during meetings with heads of state of other countries when Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister of India.”
What FACTLY found
Manmohan Singh was not the Prime Minister of India during the meetings shown in these viral photos. These meetings took place after his tenure as Prime Minister (2004–2014). The first photo was captured in April 2017, when Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe met former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi in Delhi. The second photo was taken in November 2017, when the then Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe visited India. The third photo was captured in Januar...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 13 October 2025. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 26 March 2026, 164 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/reels/DPv8HmtkuSs/
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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.