A picture of a pink coloured bag with ‘Eid Mubarak Ramzan Gift’ written on it, is doing the rounds on social media. It is being claimed that the Telangana Government is distributing special Ramzan kits to Muslims.
The caption in Hindi read: “तेलंगाना सरकार मुसलमानों को रमज़ान कि स्पेशल किट फ्रि में दे रही है।
हिन्दू के त्यौहार रामनवमी,हनुमान जयंती,उगादि पर घर से भी बाहर निकलना मना था.”
(Translation: The Telangana government is giving special Ramadan kits to Muslims for free. While, on Hindu festivals like Ramnavami, Hanuman Jayanti, Ugadi, it was forbidden to move out of the house.)
तेलंगाना सरकार मुसलमानों को रमज़ान कि स्पेशल किट फ्रि में दे रही है।
हिन्दू के त्यौहार रामनवमी,हनुमान जयंती,उगादि पर घर से भी बाहर निकलना मना था. pic.twitter.com/8bUb3LaQU6
— Suresh Chavhanke “Sudarshan News” (@SureshChavhanke) May 11, 2020
The same post was shared by several social media users. Such posts can be seen here, here and here.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above posts and found that the claim attached to the picture is misleading.
We started our investigation by putting the picture through Reverse Image Search, which led us to a blog post dated July 9, 2015, featuring the same picture of the bag.
The blog post in Tamil read – “Telangana Government’s Ramalan Gift”.
We also found a Facebook post dated July 09, 2015, which featured the same picture.
Meanwhile, Telangana Chief Minister, K Chandrashekar Rao, on May 05th, 2020, announced that there will be no distribution of Ramzan kits this year, due to COVID-19.
Hence, the above information proves that the viral picture in question is OLD and no Ramzan kits have been distributed by the Telangana government this year.
However, NewsMobile cannot independently verify the origin of the picture.
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