Photo of religious procession misrepresented as rally against arrest of opposition leader in India

An old photo of a massive religious procession surfaced on social media in India with a false claim that it showed a protest held by supporters of Arvand Kejriwal, a prominent opposition party leader arrested in March 2024. The posts falsely pinned the location of the rally as Chennai, a city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu . The photo was taken in June 2023 in the eastern state of Odisha.