CLAIMThe official Twitter handle of
Bihar Congress (INC Bihar) posted two images in separate tweets to attack
Nitish Kumar government over the flood situation in the state.
Accusing Bihar government for mishandling the flood situation, Congress tweeted that 11 districts in Bihar with around 25 lakh population are affected by floods. The tweet had an image showing a flood-ravaged village.
In another tweet, Congress took a dig at Kumar and said that instead of turning Muzaffarpur, Bihar Sharif and
Bhagalpur into smart cities, he has turned them into floating-cities.
This tweet has a photo in which a woman wades through a flooded street.
TRUTHBoth the images are old and not related to the ongoing flood situation in Bihar.
VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGYWe cropped the relevant portion of both the images and performed a reverse-image search on them to get to their source.
Tweet/Image 1We found the exact
same image on Shutterstock. It was clicked in 2013
The image is captioned as ‘Houses of Raxaul, a poor Indian town in Bihar state, India, circa November 2013. Bihar is one of the poorest states in India. The per capita income is about 300 dollars.’
Tweet/Image 2On closely observing, we found a car with a
West Bengal name plate. Taking a cue from this and using relevant keywords, we performed a reverse-image search and found the
same photo in image stock website Alamy.
The image is captioned as ‘Flooded city road with vehicles, pedestrians and uprooted trees after severe cyclonic storm "Amphan" strike at West Bengal, India’ and credited to Roop Dey / Alamy Stock Photo.
VERDICTTimes Fact Check has found that old, unrelated images were posted by Congress to falsely claim that they were taken during the ongoing flood situation in Bihar.