Fact Check: No, PM Modi Was Not Holding Empty Bucket While Serving Food At Gurdwara Patna Sahib Langar  

Boom Fact Check found that the bucket PM Modi was holding contained kheer, and was not empty as is being claimed online.

Screenshot of an X post shared with a false claim.

Fact Check: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was recently in Patna, the capital of Bihar, as part of his party's 2024 Lok Sabha election campaign and visited the famous Takhat Sri Harimandir Ji Patna Sahib Gurdwara, where he also participated in a langar (community kitchen). A photo of him serving food to devotees at the langar has since been shared with a false claim that the bucket the PM was seen holding was empty.  

BOOM viewed visuals of Modi serving food at the langar and found that the bucket he was seen holding contained kheer in it.

The prime minister on May 13, 2024, visited the Takhat Sri Patna Sahib Gurdwara, which holds significance as the birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru. Modi wore a turban and was holding a bucket of kheer while serving food to devotees.

The photo was posted on X with the caption, "BIG BREAKING Narendra Modi exposed. Narendra Modi isn't doing langar seva , he's doing a photo shoot for the coming Lok Sabha Elections in Punjab. Observe minutely Modi is Serving Food but there is no food in Plate of guests before or after the people sitting in the queue .There is no food in the serving spoon Spoon or in the serving pot Pot. He is just doing for Photoshoot to get votes from the Sikh community in the coming Lok Sabha elections in Punjab . Modi can go do anything to get votes he has no feelings for the living or dead . A heartless soul living in India."

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The same photo is being widely shared on X with the misleading claim.

BOOM found that visuals from the Takhat Sri Harimandir Ji Patna Sahib Gurdwara in Patna, Bihar, which clearly show Modi serving food from a bucket with kheer in it. The photo is being shared falsely claiming that the bucket was empty.

Screenshots taken from the viral video make it difficult to discern the food item because served because of the lighting and stainless steel plates on which the food was served.

We checked visuals posted by news agency ANI, of Modi serving devotees, where we can clearly see him serving kheer from the bucket.

This can be seen in the below X post by ANI on May 13, 2024. 

#WATCH | PM Narendra Modi serves langar at Gurudwara Patna Sahib in Patna, Bihar pic.twitter.com/FWBdcj40Fe

— ANI (@ANI) May 13, 2024

Additionally, Modi was also photographed helping the Gurdwara management to cook food at the langar. 

#WATCH | PM Narendra Modi serves langar at Gurudwara Patna Sahib in Patna, Bihar pic.twitter.com/qhj5RuHTHh

— ANI (@ANI) May 13, 2024

This story was originally published by Boom, as part of the Shakti Collective. Except for the headline, excerpt, and the opening introduction para, this story has not been edited by ABPLIVE staff.