A video featuring Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav, interacting and taking pictures with renowned Hindi film industry actress Raveena Tandon is going viral on social media.
The post claims that it showed a recent gathering and implied that Tandon would support Yadav in the Bihar Assembly elections planned for later this year.
What we found: At first, we ran a relevant keyword search to check if Tandon had come out in support of Yadav or the RJD during the campaigning for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections.
However, we did not find any statement or visuals to support the claim.
Team WebQoof, then, divided the viral video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.
It led us to the same viral video uploaded on Yadav's official Facebook page dated 16 November 2024.
The caption noted, "Met famous actress Raveena Tandon ji at the airport today."
In November 2024, news outlets Dainik Bhaskar and Prabhat Khabar reported that Tandon and her daughter Rasha Thadani visited the Baidyanath Temple in Deoghar, Jharkhand, and met Yadav at the VIP lounge of Deoghar Airport before heading back to Mumbai.
Yadav was in Deoghar to address election rallies for the then Jharkhand-assembly elections.
Conclusion: The viral video of Tandon and Yadav is old from 2024 and unrelated to the upcoming Bihar elections.
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