By Oishani Bhattacharya

An image depicting a huge crowd of people in yellow on a street is being widely shared on social media with users claiming that the image shows Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supporters in the streets of Delhi protesting against the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal.

X (formerly Twitter) user Sarita INC (@SaritaaInc) posted the above-mentioned viral image on March 31 with a caption in Hindi that can be translated as: “The entire roads of Delhi have become Kejriwal-filled. #IndiaWithKejriwal”. The tweet has received over 4.5 Lakh views and has been retweeted over 1,700 times. (Archive)

Raju Karpada (@RajubhaiKarpad1), who according to his X is bio the farmers’ wing president for AAP Gujarat, also shared the same image on March 31 with the following caption in Gujarati: “Lakhs of workers flocked in support of @ArvindKejriwal ji in Delhi today..!”. (Archive)

https://twitter.com/RajubhaiKarpad1/status/1774441481413222463?t=EX_w26e_MR05gr61s9Pcog&s=19

Several other users also shared the same image with the same claim that the image shows supporters of AAP on the streets of Delhi.

Fact Check

We ran a reverse image search on the viral image and came across a website called MDG Achievement Fund. It belongs to a now-defunct organisation named The Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund. The page on the website which carried the viral image is titled: “Haile Gebreselassie kicks off the Great Ethiopian Run under the slogan ‘We Can End Poverty by 2015′”.

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