A picture post of a man, half hanging from a rickshaw, is being shared online with a claim that he died due to starvation amid the ongoing national lockdown to contain COVID-19.
The text on the picture read: “मैंने पहले ही कहा था साहब, कोरोना क्या है, भूख से ही मर जाएंगे पहले”
(Translation- I said this earlier too, what is Corona? Starvation will kill people)
At the time of filing this report, the above post had been shared by 20,000 people.
गरीब किसान मजदूर अपने परिवार से हुए दूर ,
कोरोना वायरस के बहाने मजदूरों को किया मजबूर,
पूंजीपतियों को फ्लाइट से शिफ्टिंग की व्यवस्था ,गरीब किसानों के बसों की भी नहीं, बहुजन क्रांति मोर्चा#निषेध_आंदोलन_की_सफलता #निषेध_आंदोलन_की_सफलता pic.twitter.com/RxHRSE9ViB— प्रदेश अध्यक्ष भारत मुक्ति मोर्चा, मध्यप्रदेश (@DalmiyaSaudan) May 3, 2020
FACT CHECK
On putting the picture through Reverse Image Search, we found the original picture on a social media website, Steemit, dated September 19, 2017.
The caption on the photo read: “See the sleeping posture of the rickshaw puller after getting drunk.”
Though NewsMobile could not independently verify the origin of the picture, but, the above information establishes that the picture in question is old as it was already on the internet much before the lockdown came into effect in India.
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