Claim:
Amid the 2024 General Elections, a video of a huge crowd gathered at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting is being shared on social media (here and here) with a claim that the footage is of a recent public meeting held by Modi in Jalandhar, Punjab. Let’s try to find the authenticity of the claim through this article.
Investigation:
To ascertain the authenticity of the claim, we conducted a reverse image search on select frames from the viral video. This search directed us to the original version (archive) of the clip posted on his personal website’s X handle, @narendramodi_in.
The video was uploaded on 3 April 2019 and is explicitly titled to indicate that it was filmed at a rally in Kolkata. This evidence conclusively proves that the visuals are not from the 2024 Jalandhar meeting.
Furthermore, the same 2019 footage was found (archive) on the official Bharatiya Janata Party’s YouTube channel and X handle, further reinforcing our findings.
While it is true that PM Modi did host a meeting in Jalandhar, the viral video making rounds on social media is unrelated to that event. Footage from PM Modi’s Jalandhar visit can be viewed here and here.
Factly had debunked (here, here) the same video earlier when it was attributed to a 2024 elections rally in Adilabad, Telangana, and Jalpaiguri, West Bengal.
Conclusion: Narendra Modi’s 2019 Kolkata rally video is shared as his Jalandhar rally visuals from the 2024 General Elections campaign.
(This fact check article was originally published by Factly and has been republished by Lighthouse Journalism as a part of Shakti Collective.)
