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In 1954 Jawaharlal Nehru & Indira Gandhi visited the United States of America to a rousing reception
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Congress’ senior leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor shared a very old picture of former PM Jawaharlal Nehru, claiming that without any PR campaign or NRI crowd management or even hyped-up media publicity, Americans in huge numbers welcomed Nehru & Indira Gandhi.
Nehru & India Gandhi in the US in 1954. Look at the hugely enthusiastic spontaneous turnout of the American public, without any special PR campaign, NRI crowd management or hyped-up media publicity. pic.twitter.com/aLovXvCyRz
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) September 23, 2019
The tweet has more than 29.1 k likes, 5.8k shares & 11.9k replies. While reading this thread we found a comment saying this image was taken in Russia in 1956.
That is Moscow 1956. Totally arranged adulation
— R Jagannathan (@TheJaggi) September 23, 2019
Putting this image on Google Reverse Image Search, we found the same picture on different websites. All of them mentioned that the image was taken in Moscow in the year 1956.
To be sure about the year of the Image we again did a research and found out that this image is from Nehru’s state visit to the USSR in 1955. Indira Gandhi had accompanied her father at the time. The two had visited Magnitogorsk, an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
After getting trolled on social media, Shashi Tharoor accepted his mistake and added a comment.
I am told this picture (forwarded to me) probably is from a visit to the USSR and not the US. Even if so, it still doesn’t alter the message: the fact is that former PMs also enjoyed popularity abroad. When @narendramodi is honoured, @PMOIndia is honoured; respect is for India. https://t.co/9KQMcR0zTD
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) September 23, 2019
Tool Used
- Twitter Advanced Search
- Google Reverse Image Search
- Yandex Search
Result: False
