New Delhi: Two photos of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is getting viral on social media with one showing three other persons sitting with him, one of which is a foreigner female sitting next to him.

In the other photo, Rahul Gandhi is smiling while looking towards the camera. In this photo, too same female is sitting with the Congress VP.

Rumours are also doing rounds that this female is girlfriend of Rahul Gandhi and she belongs to Italy. There are also rumours that ex-Congress leader Barkha Shukla Singh leaked these images.

Fact check:

To know what's the real matter ABP News did a fact check. We found out that these photos were released by Barkha Shukla Singh. She was irked after not getting access to meet Rahul Gandhi. She was expelled from party after she leaked these images. She claimed that these images are of 28th March (first day of Navaratri).

ABP News came to know from Congress sources that these images are of April 14th where Congress VP was having dinner with his Italian relatives.

The female sitting with Gandhi is his family friend, not girlfriend.