A post claiming that an election campaign poster in Kerala for a Muslim woman candidate displayed her husband’s photo instead of her own is being shared on social media.

The poster, written in Malayalam, allegedly reads “Vote for Sulaiman’s spouse Fathima” and mentions “Chakkarakkudam Gram Panchayat, Ward 11,” along with the emblem of a political group called PPDP.

The claim: Those sharing the post questioned the state of “ literacy ” in Kerala, a state known for having one of the highest literacy rates in the country.

This post gathered 163.5K views at the time of writing this story. (Archives of similar claims can be found here and here .)

Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false. The viral poster features a scene from a Malayalam film called Vellari Pattanam .

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