No, These Are Not Old Pictures of PM Modi's Mother Heeraben

The first three images are of three different women and not PM Modi's mother.

A video claiming to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben Modi's transformation through the years is being shared on social media.

What does the video show?: It shows six pictures, including a picture with PM Modi at the end of the clip. This comes after Heeraben Modi passed away on 30 December, at the age of 99.

The truth: The first three pictures in the video are not of Heeraben Modi.

If not her, then who?: We performed a Google reverse image search on each of these pictures and found out that these are three different women.

First Image: A Facebook post from 2011 by one Maryala Srinivas, which carried the same image.

• The first image of the woman in the viral video was taken from this family photo.

• Srinivas had shared the image with a caption stating that it was his family photo, which included him with his mother, father, brother, and sister.

• In 2020, he had put up a post clarifying that the photo was his family photo and it didn't show former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam's or Narendra Modi's family.

SECOND IMAGE

• An article published by Hindi daily Navbharat Times carried the second image used in the viral video.

• This report was published on 30 December 2022 and identified the woman as PM Modi's sister Vasantiben.

• We looked for more visuals of Vasantiben Modi and found a video interview from 2017 shared by ABP News.

• The video showed Vasantiben in Vadnagar, Gujarat praising PM Modi.

• We also found a report by NDTV from 2014 which carried a different photo of Vasantiben.

• We also noticed that she was wearing the same outfit in both pictures.

THIRD IMAGE

• We found a video interview published by NDTV in 2020 which identified the woman as Bhawana Somaaya, a film journalist, who had translated letters written by Modi to his mother for the book 'Letters to Mother.'

• The thumbnail of the video matched the screenshot used in the viral video.

Conclusion: Three images of different women are being falsely shared as Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben Modi's photos from her younger days.

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