In the midst of the ongoing Bihar Elections, a picture of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav is being shared on social media with an implication that they have joined hands in this elections.
“तेजस्वी को जीत का माला पहना दिए नीतीश चचा” the caption read.
(Translation: Uncle Nitish gave Tejashwi the garland of victory)
Here’s the link to the above post.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found the claim to be misleading.
A simple Reverse Image Search on the picture led us to an India Today article dated 2017, featuring the same picture.
‘Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav. (Photo: PTI file)’, the picture caption read.
We then found the same image in an article on the Economic Times dated 2015.
We then ran a keyword search and found an NDTV article from 2015, featuring the same image.

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