The three-day 'Chintan Shivir' of the Congress party ended on Saturday. But many on social media have criticized the party over the choice of colors used for decoration at the venue in Rajasthan's Udaipur.

News Claim: The three-day 'Chintan Shivir' of the Congress party ended on Saturday. But many on social media have criticized the party over the choice of colors used for decoration at the venue in Rajasthan's Udaipur. Several pictures are going viral on social media, in which it is being claimed that the tent put up at the Congress event was green and white in color which resembled the national flag of Pakistan.Sharing the photo of Congress Chintan Shivir, a user named Hemat Singh Rajawat on Twitter wrote in the tweet that, the color of Pakistan's flag above and saffron color below! This is a picture of Congress's Chintan Shivir in Udaipur, Rajasthan. In the photo shared by the users, a tent is shown. In which the upper part of the tent is white and green. While a saffron colored carpet is seen lying on the ground.

News Verification: Ayupp team of the company investigated the picture going viral. The picture shown in the investigation is fake. When we saw the pictures, it came to know that the Congress program had tents of not two but three colors of cloth. These three colors were the colors of the Congress party's flag. It is clear from this that the picture going viral is fake.

News Verdict:  We found the claim was misleading the Congress party has not used green and white colours of the Pakistan national flag.

 

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