On 26 September 2025, violence erupted in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly, reportedly (here, here, and here) during a protest against police action on people who carried ‘I love Muhammad’ posters during an Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi procession in Kanpur on 4 September 2025. Soon after that, security forces were deployed to control the situation. As per the reports, a video of an incident where police chased away people who took part in an ‘I Love Muhammad’ procession in Mau District was shared on social media. On 27 September 2025, the Uttar Pradesh Police arrested eight persons in relation to the violence in Bareilly, including a local Islamic Cleric named Tauqeer Raza Khan, who called for a demonstration.
Amid this context, a photo circulating on social media claims to show Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav wearing ‘I Love Muhammad’ T-shirts. Let’s examine the truth behind this image.
Claim: The viral photo shows Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav wearing ‘I Love Muhammad’ T-shirts.
Fact: This image is generated using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and is not real. Therefore, the claim is FALSE.
While investigating the claim using relevant keywords, we found no credible news reports stating that Rahul Gandhi or Tejashwi Yadav wore T-shirts with the phrase ‘I Love Muhammad’ in support of the protests. We also went. through the social media accounts of both leaders (here, here, here and here) and found no such photo.
To further verify, we performed a reverse image search on Google, which led us to a high-quality version of the viral photo on a Facebook page called ‘Deeni Scholars’. Notably, this page had recently posted another AI-generated image claiming to show Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi holding an ‘I Love Muhammad’ poster, which we had previously debunked as false.
To confirm whether the current photo was AI-generated, we used the Hive AI content detection tool, which indicated that the image is 100% AI-generated. This confirms that the viral photo is artificially created and does not show a real photo.
To sum up, this photo of Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav wearing ‘I Love Muhammad’ T-shirts is AI-generated .
