With the upcoming bypoll election in Telangana for the Jubilee Hills constituency, images of purported voter identification cards of actresses Samantha Ruth Prabhu , Rakul Preet Singh and Tamannah Bhatia have gone viral on social media.
In these voter IDs, the addresses of the three actresses have been registered in the same house alleging voter theft , a major issue raised by the opposition.
(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here .)
Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false as these voter IDs are fake and don't belong to the said actresses.
What we found: At first, we ran a relevant keyword search to check whether the three actresses were registered voters in Telangana.
However, we found visuals showing Singh and Bhatia voting in Mumbai during the Lok Sab