A video featuring former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi meeting a Chinese delegation is circulating on social media, accompanied by misleading claims that it is from Singh’s time in office. The video claims to show Singh as sidelined during the meeting.
The video was discovered to be from June 16, 2015, after Singh’s tenure as Prime Minister, which lasted from 2004 to 2014. The meeting was between Sonia Gandhi, who was the Congress President at that time, and a delegation led by Zhang Dejiang, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China. This information is corroborated by a press release from the Press Information Bureau and multiple news reports from the time.
Further investigation indicated that the video had initially been uploaded on the Congress party’s YouTube channel, explicitly identifying the meeting with the Chinese delegation. Singh’s presence was as a Congress party leader, not as the Prime Minister.
Conclusively, the claims surrounding the video are misleading, as the meeting took place after Singh’s term as Prime Minister had ended.
- Why it matters: Misinformation can impact public perception of political figures and their historical actions, influencing political discourse.
- The latest: The video continues to circulate on various social media platforms, demonstrating the ongoing challenges of misinformation online.
Source: https://english.factcrescendo.com/2025/09/04/video-of-dr-manmohan-singh-meeting-chinese-delegation-goes-viral-with-misleading-claims/
Source: https://english.factcrescendo.com/2025/09/04/video-of-dr-manmohan-singh-meeting-chinese-delegation-goes-viral-with-misleading-claims/