Fact Check: No, That's Not Kuwait Queen With PM Modi In This Viral Image, The Woman Is A Yoga Practitioner

A viral post claims to show PM Modi with the Queen of Kuwait. But fact-checking reveals that the woman is Shaikha AJ Al-Sabah, a yoga practitioner and founder of a yoga studio, who met Modi in 2024.

Screenshot of a social media post shared with a false claim that the woman seen with PM Modi in an image is the queen of Kuwait.

Source : Factly

A post going viral on social media (here, here, and here) features Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking with a woman. The post claims that the woman is the queen of Kuwait, dressed in casual attire without hijab. This post is shared in the context of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Kuwait in December 2024. Let’s verify the claim made in the post through this article.

Claim: A photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the queen of Kuwait.

Fact: The woman in the viral photo has been identified as Shaikha AJ Al-Sabah, an avid yoga practitioner and the founder of Kuwait’s first licensed yoga studio, ‘Daratma.’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi met her, along with other influencers from the Gulf region, on 22 December 2024 in Kuwait. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.

A Google lens search of the viral photo led us to several reports (here, here, and here) (archived here, here, and here) featuring the same photo. These reports identified her as Shaikha AJ Al-Sabah, an avid yoga practitioner and the founder of Kuwait’s first licensed yoga studio, ‘Daratma,’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met her along with other influencers from the Gulf country on 22 December 2024.

We also found an X post by PM Modi, dated 22 December 2024, where he shared his experience of meeting Shaikha AJ Al-Sabah.

Met HH Shaikha AJ Al-Sabah in Kuwait. She has distinguished herself for her passion towards Yoga and fitness. She has established her own Yoga and wellness studio, which is quite popular in Kuwait. We talked about ways to make Yoga more popular among the youth. pic.twitter.com/0pjMxWwUDe

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 22, 2024

We also found an Instagram post by the Ministry of External Affairs featuring the same photo of PM Modi meeting Shaikha A J Al-Sabah identifying her as a yoga practitioner and the founder of Kuwait’s first licensed yoga studio, ‘Daratma.’

 

 

 

 

 

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A post shared by Ministry of External Affairs (@meaindia)

However, we did not find any credible sources indicating that Kuwait has an official title or position of “Queen.” The country is currently governed by Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah,

To sum up, a photo of a yoga practitioner from Kuwait with PM Modi is being misrepresented as that of the queen of Kuwait.

This story was originally published by Factly, as part of the Shakti Collective. Except for the headline and excerpt, this story has not been edited by ABP LIVE staff.