An image claiming Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal made his picture bigger and added Mahatma Gandhi's picture in a corner thumbnail, in a newspaper ad marking October 2 is fake and edited.
BOOM found that in the original newspaper ad carried by Dainik Jagran, Mahatma Gandhi's photo is actually larger and more prominent than Kejriwal's.
The viral photo is being shared on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2, 2021.
The photoshopped image is being shared with the caption, "Kejriwal jayanti ki shubhkamnaein - MK Gandhi"
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FACT-CHECK
BOOM found that the viral image is edited and in the original newspaper ad in Dainik Jagran, we can see that Mahatma Gandhi's photo is larger than Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's cutout.
In the Twitter replies, we found several people replying to the tweet carrying the fake image with the original ad in the paper.
We then cross checked the ad, by looking up the original in Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran's epaper edition for Delhi on October 2, 2021. In the e-paper it is clear that Kejriwal's photo was not larger than Gandhi's as being claimed.
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Comparision
Additionally, Aam Aadmi Party's Delhi official Twitter account also tweeted that the photo is morphed and attached an original ad photo in the newspaper.