A screengrab of a tweet attributed to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is being shared on social media.
In the tweet, Rahul Gandhi is seen congratulating Lathika Subhash, Kerela Mahila Congress president, for tonsuring her head.
Lathika Subhash tonsured her head recently in front of the party office after she was denied a party ticket for the upcoming Kerala assembly elections. She also resigned from the post there and then only.
“Wholeheartedly congratulating dedicated party worker, our mahila congress president of Kerala who is tonsured her head as mark of pledge to lord Murugan,” the tweet read.
Here’s the link to the above post.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found the post to be false.
Firstly, we checked the official account of Rahul Gandhi but did not find any such tweet. We also ran a search using Twitter Advanced Search but did not find any tweet related to this.
Moreover, we then compared the viral purported tweet to the desktop, mobile and TweetDeck version of Rahul Gandhi’s latest tweet and noted some discrepancy in the format.
In all the version of the original tweets, the corners of the image are rounded whereas in the viral tweet, it’s sharp-edged.
We also looked at reports to support the claim but did not find news about any such statement made by Rahul Gandhi.
Hence, from the above information, it is clear that the viral tweet is fake.
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