CLAIM

Nehru ji & Smt. Indira Gandhi in the US in 1954. Look at the hugely enthusiastic spontaneous turnout of the America… https://t.co/N7UAK09uCL — Kamal Kishor Commando (@KamalKishor_INC) 1569259392000

TRUTH

1955

VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGY

@ShashiTharoor That is Moscow 1956. Totally arranged adulation — R Jagannathan (@TheJaggi) 1569260041000

PHOTO FROM 1955

Nehru's Soviet trip was from June 7 till June 23, 1955 and his daughter Indira Gandhi had accompanied him.

Here's the photo:

Chelyabinsk's Magnitogorsk.

VERDICT

UPDATE:

However, he did not delete the original tweet spreading misinformation.

Senior Congress Leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted a photo showing former prime ministers of the country, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi , in a car amid huge crowds with a claim that the photo was taken when they visited the United States of America (USA) in 1954.Tweeting the photo, Tharoor said, "Nehru and India (sic) Gandhi in the US in 1954. Look at the hugely enthusiastic spontaneous turnout of the American public, without any special PR campaign, NRI crowd management or hyped-up media publicity."The tweet has already gotten over 3,400 retweets and more than 15,000 likes.Tharoor's tweet is a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi , who attended an Indian-American community event named 'Howdy, Modi!' at the NRG Stadium in Texas' Houston on September 22, 2019. Among the 50,000 people present at the venue of the mega event was United States President Donald Trump.The same image was tweeted by Congress leader and former MP Kamal Kishor with more or less the same caption.The image was also posted on Facebook by Indian Youth Congress' online magazine Yuva Desh with a caption in Hindi that translates to what Tharoor tweeted.The photo of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi that Tharoor, Kishore and Yuva Desh shared was one clicked inwhen they visited then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), in Magnitogorsk, and not one clicked in 1954 in USA.Many Twitter users, including senior journalists, responded to Tharoor's tweet telling him that the image he shared was one clicked when Nehru and Gandhi visited 'Moscow in 1956'.A simple reverse-image search on the photo Tharoor tweeted on various search engines like Google and Yandex will take you to many websites that says the photo was clicked when Nehru and Gandhi visited 'Moscow in 1956'.The photo is, however, from 1955 and not 1956 as widely believed. report published on July 11, 2015 in The Hindu titled, 'Nehru’s Soviet sojourn', and one published on a website called Russia Beyond on July 2, 2015 titled, 'Six decades since Nehru’s first official USSR visit', say that Nehru's USSR visit was in 1955 and not 1956.Using reverse-image search on the photo Tharoor tweeted on Yandex search engine, we found the same photo tweeted by a user who goes by the handle '@Pablo_mrz' saying what loosely translates to, "Residents of Magnitogorsk welcome the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi. Chelyabinsk Region, June 1955."We then found another tweet that shared a photo from the same rally, clicked from a different angle. The caption of the tweet by a user who goes by the handle 'VoenSnab' loosely translates to, "USSR Chelyabinsk region in 1955-1956".We also found multiple articles that confirmed that both these photos were clicked in 1955 inWe found the same photo, this time watermarked, on fotosoyuz74.ru , the official website of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Union of Photographers of Russia. The photo caption said, "Magnitogorsk. Indian delegation to the MMK. 1955".The photo of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi tweeted with the claim that it was clicked in 1954 in USA is actually one clicked in 1955 in Magnitogorsk in then USSR.The claim Tharoor made is, hence, false.Tharoor, in a new tweet , said, "I am told this picture (forwarded to me) probably is from a visit to the USSR and not the US. Even if so, it still doesn't alter the message: the fact is that former PMs also enjoyed popularity abroad. When @narendramodi is honoured, @PMOIndia is honoured; respect is for India."The verified Facebook page of Tharoor had posted the Nehru-Indira photo saying it's from 1954 and clicked in the US, and later edited the caption to say the photo is from USSR. However, the year in the caption of this post still remains 1954. The photo, like we proved, was actually clicked in 1955.