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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is viral claiming that it captures Gandhi’s visit to the Ram temple in Ayodhya following his nomination filing from Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli for the Lok Sabha elections. Fact: BOOM found that the video is old and from Jharkhand’s Deoghar district. The footage shows Gandhi’s visit to the Baba Baidyanath Dham temple as part of his nationwide Bharat Jodo Nyay rally on February 3, 2024. Tools used: BOOM ran a reverse image search on one of the keyframes from the viral video and found several news reports from February 3, 2024…