Visuals of a bullock cart race in Maharashtra falsely shared as Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar
On 17 August 2025, Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, launched the ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Sasaram, Bihar, a 16-day march covering over 1,300 km across more than 20 districts of the state. The march was launched against the backdrop of the Congress’s accusations of “vote chori” against the ECI and the INDIA Bloc’s opposition to the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar. The campaign will conclude with a rally at Gandhi Maidan in Patna on 01 September 2025 (here, here, and here).
Amid this, a video showing a massive crowd is being widely shared on social media, with claims that it shows recent visuals from Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar (here, here, here, here). In this article, we fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: The video shows a massive crowd gathering at Rahul Gandhi’s recent ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ rally held in August 2025 in Bihar.
Fact: The viral video showing a massive crowd is not related to Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar or to any of his meetings. It is from a bullock cart race organised at the Hindkesari Ground in Pedgaon, Satara, Maharashtra. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
To verify the details of the viral video, we conducted a reverse image search on Google using keyframes from the clip. This search led us to a similar video uploaded on YouTube on 23 June 2025. The video was shared with the caption #Pedgaon #bullockcart #race #Field #pedgav #bailgada #shariyat #Maharashtra #bakasur #trending #gadamalak. The caption suggests that the video is from a bullock cart race held in Maharashtra. From this, we can confirm that the viral video is not linked to the ongoing ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar, as it was available online much before the launch of Rahul Gandhi’s march on 17 August 2025.
Further searches led us to another video with similar visuals shared on Instagram on 23 June 2025. The caption of this video also claimed that the visuals were related to a bullock cart race held in Maharashtra. We then conducted a relevant keyword search and found multiple videos on Instagram showing visuals identical to those in the viral video. According to these, the viral video is related to a bullock cart race organised at the Hindkesari Ground in Pedgaon, Satara, Maharashtra.
On closer observation of the viral video, we can also see some members of the crowd wearing T-shirts with bull images.
We then geolocated the Hindkesari Ground in Pedgaon, Satara, Maharashtra, and found a photo uploaded in June 2025 to Google Street View imagery of Hindkesari Maidan that matches the visuals seen in the viral video.
Fact-checking organisation ‘Newschecker’ contacted one of the organisers of the bullock cart race in Pedgaon, Satara, Maharashtra. Speaking to them, he confirmed that the video indeed shows the bullock cart race organised at Hindkesari Ground in Pedgaon. He also stated that the event was held on 21 June 2025. We also found multiple other videos of the event on YouTube (here, here, and here).
To sum it up, this viral video showing a massive crowd is not related to Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar. It is related to a bullock cart race held in Satara, Maharashtra.