No, The Female Officer Is Not Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Daughter

1. No, The Female Officer Is Not Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Daughter Facebook post claiming defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s daughter is army official goes viral. No, The Female Officer Is Not Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Daughter on BoomLive. Facebook post claiming defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s daughter is an army official goes viral.

2. BoomLive News: A photograph of Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman standing along side a female army officer is being shared on Facebook with the claim that the woman in uniform is the defence minister’s daughter. However, BOOM was able to ascertain that the claim is false. The post is accompanied with text in Hindi which loosely translates to, ‘Honorable Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman together with her daughter.’ The archived version of the post can be accessed here. BOOM also reached out to the Indian Army to verify the claim. “The army officer in the photo is not the Raksha Mantri’s daughter. She is a young army officer appointed as the liaison for an official visit of the Raksha Mantri,” Colonel Aman Anand, a spokesman for the Indian Army, told BOOM. Posted on the Facebook page ‘Team Modi Supporter Jalaur’ on December 27, 2018 the post was shared over 350 times till the time of writing this story. The same image was also shared on the Facebook page’ I Support RSS… ‘ and has garnered over 70 shares. The post, which claims that the woman-officer dressed in military fatigue is Nirmala Sitharaman’s daughter is picking up shares on several other Facebook pages. BOOM ran a reverse image search on the image to find out the identity of the army personnel in the picture. ↓↓↓ Here is FactCheck About ↓↓↓ Nirmala Sitharaman’s Daughter