Rishi Sunak did not say India needs PM like Manmohan Singh to revive its economy
A graphic purported to be of the Hindi newspaper, Dainik Bhaskar, is being circulated on social media to claim that UK’s newly-elected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak praised India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
By Md Mahfooz Alam Published on 29 Oct 2022 9:34 AM GMT
Hyderabad: A graphic purported to be of the Hindi newspaper, Dainik Bhaskar, is being circulated on social media to claim that UK's newly-elected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak praised India's former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The graphic has photos of Mr. Sunak and Mr. Singh and the text reads, "India needs the stewardship of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take India in the right direction and improve its deteriorating economy." (Translated)
Several Facebook and Twitter users have shared the post with different captions.
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Fact Check
NewsMeter ran a keyword search to find news reports about Mr. Sunak praising Mr. Singh but did not find any such news reported by the media. If the UK's Prime Minister had good words for India's former Prime Minister, the media would have reported it.
Further, we performed a reverse image search and found the same graphic posted by the official Twitter handle of Dainik Bhaskar on 25 October. However, the text on the graphic is different. The original text reads, "Chidambaram and Tharoor advised that India should also have a PM from the minority community: BJP retorted, have you forgotten Manmohan Singh."
On 28 October, Dainik Bhaskar debunked the fake graphic in a tweet.
It is evident that the graphic is morphed. Hence, the claim is false.
