All section CloseFact Check: Portrait Unveiled By President Ram Nath Kovind At Rashtrapati Bhavan Is Of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
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India, 28 Jan 2021 2:00 PM GMT
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Yusha, an engineer turned journalist with a core interest in sensible journalism. Since the time she worked in an MNC, she saw how fake news was rife to malign images of communities, leaders, etc. This encouraged her to give up her career in MNC and passionately work towards curbing fake news and propaganda.
Social media falsely claim President Ram Nath Kovind unveiled the portrait of actor Prosenjit Chatterjee, who played the role of Netaji Subhash Chandra, in Rashtrapati Bhavan instead of Netaji's portrait.
On January 23, 2021, President of India, Ram Nath Kovind unveiled a portrait of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at Rashtrapati Bhavan to commemorate his 125th birth anniversary celebrations.
n the backdrop to this, a controversy started on social media claiming that the portrait unveiled by the President was not of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose but of actor Prosenjeet Chaterjee who played the role of Netaji in film Gumnami, directed by Srijit Mukherjee.
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