Several news agencies have reported that Rahul Gandhi was given blessings by the seer of Sringeri mutt - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
February 4, 2022
A post is being shared widely on social media with a claim that the seer of ‘Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham’ denied blessings to Rahul Gandhi and then Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for their alleged anti-Hindu stance. They met the mutt seer in March 2018. Let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: ‘Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham’ seer has denied blessings to Rahul Gandhi and then Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for their alleged anti-Hindu stance.
Fact: No such denial of blessings by the seer was reported by any reputed news agency. In fact, several of them reported that Rahul Gandhi and Siddaramaiah were given blessings by the seer on their visit to the mutt. It was also reported that the mutt seer has gifted a photograph of Rajiv Gandhi (when he visited the mutt) to Rahul Gandhi. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
When the photo was run through Google Reverse Image Search, many news articles with similar photos were found in the search results. It was found that the photo was taken in March 2018 when both Rahul Gandhi and Siddaramaiah, along with other leaders, visited the Sringeri mutt. ‘Karnataka Congress’ and Siddaramaiah have tweeted the photos and wrote about the visit to the mutt. In the tweet made by the ‘Karnataka Congress’, it can be read that the leaders received the blessings of the seer.
ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷರಾದ ರಾಹುಲ್ ಗಾಂಧಿಯವರು ಚಿಕ್ಕಮಗಳೂರು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಶ್ರೀ ಶೃಂಗೇರಿ ಮಠದ ಜಗದ್ಗುರುಗಳಾದ ಶ್ರೀ ಶ್ರೀ ಶ್ರೀ ಭಾರತಿ ತೀರ್ಥ ಮಹಾಸ್ವಾಮೀಜಿಗಳವರನ್ನು ಭೇಟಿ ಮಾಡಿ, ಆಶೀರ್ವಾದ ಪಡೆದರು. #JanaAashirwadaYatre #RGInKarnataka pic.twitter.com/qZ8L1rncJp
The denial of blessings by the seer, as mentioned in the post, was not reported by any reputed news agency. In fact, several of them reported that Rahul Gandhi and Siddaramaiah were given blessings by the seer on their visit to the mutt. Some of those news articles can be read here and here.
Also, it was reported that the mutt seer has gifted a photograph of Rajiv Gandhi (when he visited the mutt) to Rahul Gandhi.
Several reputed news agencies have also published articles on the conversation between the mutt seer and Rahul Gandhi, which can be read here, here, here, and here. None of them mentioned the claims made in the post.
To sum it up, several news agencies have reported that Rahul Gandhi was given blessings by the Sringeri mutt seer. So, there is no truth in the claims made in the post regarding the denial of blessings by the mutt seer to Rahul Gandhi and Siddaramaiah.