Fact Check: Debunking the Viral Video of PM Modi Holding Rabindranath Tagore Portrait Upside-Down

A lot of people on social media are sharing pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi accepting an upside-down painting of Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore.

The claim: PM Modi was working in West Bengal for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The pictures are being shared as a jab at him.

Who shared it?: A video of the event was shared by the official X (formerly Twitter) account of the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC). Sagarika Ghose, an MP for the party, also shared a picture of the prime minister carrying the piece of art backwards.

Is it true?: The video is trimmed, so the images aren’t what they seem to be.

In the full video, you can see that the mistake was quickly fixed by those around PM Modi.

The picture doesn’t show the whole story of what happened.

How did we find out the truth?: How did we understand the truth? The other day, we went to PM Modi’s verified YouTube account to find videos of his recent rallies in West Bengal.

Conclusion: To poke fun at the leader, people are sharing a cut-up video and an image of PM Modi holding a piece of art that shows Rabindranath Tagore backwards.