Fact Check: Viral Image of Rahul Gandhi with Wife and Kids On Social Media Debunked as False

New Delhi (Viswas News). A photo of Rahul Gandhi is going viral on various social media platforms, claiming that the woman and children seen in it are his alleged wife and children. Many users have shared this photo with the same claim on Vishwas News’ WhatsApp tipline number.

Vishvas News investigated and found this claim to be fake. The viral picture is related to Congress’s ‘Bharat Jodo’ Yatra in which he promised three children in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh that he would take them for a ride in a helicopter and he fulfilled this promise in Bundi, Rajasthan. The three school children who had expressed their wish to fly in a helicopter with Rahul Gandhi were called from Ujjain to Bundi and then they got a chance to fly in a helicopter with Rahul Gandhi.

What is viral?

Several users on Vishvas News tipline have also shared the same photo with the same claim, which says, “Wife Jonita Vinci, son Nohak Vinci, 19 years old, daughter Meenaik Vinci, 15 years old. The father is roaming around in India as a 56-year-old bachelor.”

Several users on different social media platforms have shared the photo with the same claim.

investigation

To find out the truth of the claim made with the viral photo, it was necessary to find the original source of this photo. To do this, we took the help of reverse image search and in the search we found this photo in many old news reports.

ABPLive.com of December 9, 2022 Report According to, “Rahul Gandhi fulfilled the promise made to three students of MP during Bharat Jodo Yatra in just 10 days. Former Congress national president Rahul Gandhi is currently in Rajasthan for his Bharat Jodo Yatra. The yatra entered Bundi district on Thursday. After completing the yatra in Kota, Rahul Gandhi directly reached the helipad built in Gudli, Bundi. Three students from Ujjain, MP were waiting for him there. They had come to take a helicopter ride with Rahul Gandhi.”

The report also mentions the context of this incident, according to which, “Actually, during his visit to Ujjain on November 29, Rahul Gandhi met 11th class students Sheetal, Antima and 10th class student Girija. Rahul talked to them about their dream career. Rahul Gandhi asked them what other dreams they had after school apart from studies. During the conversation, these students also expressed their desire to travel by air with Rahul. At that time, Rahul had promised all three of them that he would take them on an air travel soon.”

December 9, 2022, published on the website of Zeenews.india.com Report There is also a mention of this incident in it and the picture used in it is of the same girls who are included in the viral post.

According to the report, “Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra was in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh on 29 November. During his entry into the city of Baba Mahakal, school children in Badnagar of the district performed folk dance to welcome Rahul Gandhi and attracted Rahul towards their Indian culture. Rahul Gandhi, who was pleased to see the folk dance and the talent of the children, also danced with the school children, in which Kamal Nath Digvijay were also seen dancing. After the dance, Rahul Gandhi discussed with the children for half an hour during tea discussion and asked them about their wishes. The children expressed their wish to fly a helicopter and become a pilot with Rahul Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi promised the children to take them for a ride in a helicopter and fulfilled that promise in Bundi, Rajasthan during the Bharat Jodo Yatra.”

Our investigation clearly shows that the viral photo is from the Bharat Jodo Yatra, when Rahul Gandhi met school children in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh and asked about their wishes. During this, the children expressed their wish to become pilots and travel in a helicopter, which he fulfilled in Bundi, Rajasthan.

We contacted Uttar Pradesh Congress spokesperson Abhimanyu Tyagi regarding the viral photo. He called the viral claim fake and said, “This is a clear case of propaganda.”

Rahul Gandhi is an MP from Rae Bareli in the current Lok Sabha and according to the affidavit given to the Election Commission, he is unmarried. News ReportAccording to, after the results of Lok Sabha elections 24, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge made it clear that Rahul Gandhi will remain an MP from Rae Bareli. At the same time, while announcing his resignation from Wayanad seat, he said that Priyanka Gandhi will now be the Congress candidate in the Wayanad Lok Sabha by-election.

Fact check reports of other viral claims related to Rahul Gandhi on social media can be found here Click can be read.

Conclusion: The claim of Rahul Gandhi having a wife and children is fake and the picture going viral with this claim is of three school children from Madhya Pradesh, whom Rahul Gandhi met in Ujjain during the ‘Bharat Jodo’ Yatra and who had expressed their desire to travel by air with Rahul Gandhi during their conversation with him. Rahul Gandhi fulfilled this promise in Bundi, Rajasthan and gave the three students a helicopter ride of about 20 minutes.

• Claim Review : Rahul Gandhi with his wife and children.
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