Fact check: Old video of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav meet shared as recent

Old video of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav meet being circulated as recent. Viral claims are misleading.

Misleading claim about recent meeting of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav
Screenshot of video being shared with claim that Nitish Kumar met Lalu Prasad Yadav recently. (PC: X)

Lighthouse Journalism found a video being shared widely that featured chief minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar being welcomed by Tejaswi Yadav in the beginning, And later shows Nitish Kumar meeting Lalu Prasad Yadav of Rashtriya Janata Dal. The video is being shared claiming it to be recent. During the investigation we found the video to be old and not recent.

Claim:

X user SK Gautam shared the viral video with a misleading claim on his handle.

Check the archive version of the claim here.

Other users too are sharing the same claim.

Investigation:

We started our investigation by running a reverse image search on the keyframes obtained from the viral video.

By running a reverse image search on one of the keyframes we found the report on a report on TV9hindi.com

The report was published in 2022.

We also found a report on the website thefollowup.in.

The report stated that Nitish Kumar met Lalu Yadav before leaving for New Delhi.

We also found a video uploaded on the website of Zee News on 15th Sepy 2015.

The report was titled: Nitish Kumar meets Lalu Yadav before leaving for Delhi

Conclusion: Old video of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav meet being circulated as recent. Viral claims are misleading.