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Man pictured trying to touch politician's feet misidentified as India's former PM Singh

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Summary
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81% Informative

A picture of a man bowing to touch the feet of politician Sonia Gandhi surfaced in posts that falsely identified the man as Singh .

The circulating picture showed a Congress party worker and not Singh , according to the photographer who took it in November 2011 .

Critics have frequently depicted Singh as subservient to Gandhi , the longest-serving leader of the opposition Congress party.

VR Score

76

Informative language

73

Neutral language

38

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

51

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

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not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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