A picture of a road filled with huge potholes is going viral on social media to show the condition of roads in Rahul Gandhi’s constituency Wayanad.

A Facebook user name Sunil Dwivedi shared the picture with a caption "Rahul Gandhi's parliamentary constituency Wayanad became the first smart city in the country to build a separate swimming pool in front of every house.

The viral post received 69 likes and 154 shares at the time of writing this article.

A twitter user @AnkiSharma shared the same picture on her twitter account with the same claim.

The viral post received 154 likes and 68 retweets at the time of writing this article.

Fact Check

In our investigation, we found that the claim being made with the picture is misleading. The viral picture is at least 3-Years-old of NH-80 in Bhagalpur, Bihar.

After doing reverse research of the image we found a news report of Times of India in which the same picture is used. According to the article dated June 29, 2017, this picture is from the Bhagalpur-Pirpainty-Mirzachowki National Highway (NH) 80 in Bihar.

When Tejashwi Yadav was the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, he was trolled on social media under the pretext of the old picture of National Highway 80. Tejashwi had reacted to this and questioned the veracity of the claim. Later, Tejashwi tweeted two different pictures of this road - one viral picture and the other after repairing the pits. He wrote with pictures, "Rumours vs Reality"ShekharGupta Ji, that's how Bihar is defamed. Hope u will acknowledge reality. One shd validate facts before retweeting"

Later "ABP News" did a ground report from the same road in Bhagalpur. The photo is of the national highway in Bhagalpur district in Bihar but shows its condition from two months prior to it going viral, and a new road has been laid by the time of their visit.

In conclusion, an old image of a road full of huge potholes on NH-80 of Bhagalpur national highway is being falsely claimed as a picture from Rahul Gandhi’s constituency Wayanad. The road was later repaired.