The Prime Minister is about to inaugurate 3024 newly-built homes for the economically weaker part (EWS) in Delhi to rehabilitate folks residing in slums as a part of a slum rehabilitation programme. Several distinguished BJP leaders posted the announcement on Twitter and shared a poster on the occasion.

The poster has three elements – 1) a picture of a high-rise constructing; 2) a picture of household and three) a textual content in Hind, which interprets in English to: ‘Now, a concrete house instead of a slum hut… A huge gift to the people of Delhi from the central government. 3024 newly-constructed EWS houses will be inaugurated and keys handed over to beneficiaries.’

Union residence minister Amit Shah, tweeted the poster with a caption in Hindi, which roughly translated to English as ‘The Modi government does not make empty promises. It delivers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will handover keys to happiness to the slum-dwellers in Delhi. 3024 EWS flats to be handed over by Modiji in Delhi.’

सिर्फ घोषणाएँ नहीं बल्कि जनता से किए अपने वादों को पूरा करती है मोदी सरकार।

प्रधानमंत्री श्री @NarendraModi जी आज दिल्ली में झुग्गी-झोपड़ी में रहने वाले लोगों को देंगे उनकी ख़ुशियों की चाबी। मोदी जी द्वारा दिल्ली में 3024 EWS Flats लोगों को दिए जाएँगे। pic.twitter.com/rLre6zWNlb

— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) November 2, 2022

The official account of BJP Delhi State additionally shared the identical poster in a tweet, which roughly interprets to English as ‘Thousands of landless slum dwellers in Delhi to receive the gift of a concrete home. Today, as the Prime Minister Narendra Modi hands over the keys to 3024 EWS houses to beneficiaries, it will be a dream come true for them.’

दिल्ली के भूमिहीन कैंप में झुग्गी-झोपड़ी में रहने वाले हजारों गरीबों को मिल रहा पक्के घर का उपहार।

आज प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi 3024 EWS फ्लैट्स की चाबी लाभार्थियों को देकर करेंगे उनका सपना साकार। pic.twitter.com/nDNmKWdLZz

— BJP Delhi (@BJP4Delhi) November 2, 2022

Member of Parliament Hardwar Dubey, BJP Rajasthan state vice-president Chandrakanta Meghwal, former chief minister of Uttarakhand Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank replicated Amit Shah’s publish of their tweets. Here are the screenshots of the tweets carrying the poster.

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Image Verification

A reverse image search utilizing Google exhibits that the picture used within the poster is just not that of slum dwellers in Delhi however of Saroo Brierley and his household. Saroo was born in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh. At the age of 5, he misplaced contact together with his household and was adopted by an Australian household. He spent the following 25 years in Hobart earlier than the traced his birthplace utilizing Google Maps and travelled to India, and in 2012, obtained reunited together with his mom.

We discovered a report by LiveMint which was carried the picture of the household seen within the poster. The photograph was credited to ‘Penguin Books India’.

Brierley’s story obtained recognized world over after an Australian film, ‘Lion‘, starring Dev Patel was made on him. Several stories on Brierley, including an autobiographical account ‘A Long Way Home’, has been written through the years [1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ].

On that fateful day in 1986, Saroo, then 5, was ready for his brother, Guddu, on the Khandwa railway station. When he couldn’t discover him, Saroo boarded a prepare and reached Howrah station in West Bengal. After spending three weeks on the streets of Calcutta, he was taken to an adoption centre and eventually adopted by an Australian household. In 2012, greater than twenty years later, utilizing Google Maps, Saroo tracked down the identical railway station, and finally his birthplace, Khandwa. He then got here to India searching for his misplaced household and was reunited with them. The image within the posters was clicked after he met his organic household. In the image, Saroo is seen together with his mom Kamla, brother Kallu’s household, his sister Shekila and her son.

The image was has additionally been shared by a parody account of the identical identify.

Words cannot describe how blissful I’m at the moment. So many sleepless nights misplaced in thought. I’ve lastly discovered my function, my life have been fulfilled. pic.twitter.com/jqQuAX11EQ

— Saroo Brierley (@saroobrierley5) April 16, 2019

Twitter user Pradeep Pandey, a journalist, identified that the image of Saroo and his household was improperly used within the poster.

Thus, we will say that the poster on the housing undertaking for slum dwellers in Delhi carries a misplaced image of Saroo Brierly and his organic household.

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