This 2024 video of Rahul Gandhi offering prayers at the Trimbakeshwar Temple is being shared as if it were taken after the 2025 Bihar election loss.
A video (here, here and here) is going viral on social media showing Rahul Gandhi offering prayers in a temple. It is being claimed that Rahul Gandhi visited the Trimbakeshwar Temple in Maharashtra after the loss in the 2025 Bihar elections. Let’s find the truth behind this claim.
Claim: The viral video shows Rahul Gandhi visiting Trimbakeshwar Temple after the 2025 Bihar election loss.
Fact: The video is from 14 March 2024, filmed during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Maharashtra, when Rahul Gandhi visited the Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga Temple in Nashik, long before the 2025 Bihar election. Multiple media reports and social media posts from that time confirm the video’s original context, proving it is unrelated to the Bihar election results. Hence, the claim is MISLEADING.
To verify the claim, a reverse image search on Google was conducted. This search led to the full version of the viral clip uploaded by several news outlets on YouTube on 14 March 2024, well before the Bihar election results were announced (here, here, here and here). The video descriptions clearly state that Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra had reached Nashik on that date, during which he visited the Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga Temple and offered prayers.
Another result led us to social media posts containing the same videos, including the viral clip (here, here and here). All of these posts claim that the visuals are from Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga Temple on 14 March 2024.
Further research led us to media reports about the incident that featured stills from the viral video (here, here, here and here). These reports also confirm that the visuals are from Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga Temple in Nashik, where he stopped during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra to offer prayers.
Additionally, it is important to note that the Bihar election results in question were announced on 14 November 2025, when the NDA secured a victory, winning 202 seats out of 243. No credible reports suggest that Rahul Gandhi visited the Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga Temple after this defeat. The viral video has no connection whatsoever with the recent Bihar election result.
To sum up, the 2024 video of Rahul Gandhi offering prayers at the Trimbakeshwar Temple is being shared as if it were taken after the 2025 Bihar election loss.