consumer consuming the same message twice at the s

Question

At the very first consuming, my consumer is consuming the same message twice, this only happens at the first consuming, after that it only consumes once.

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Attaching the consumer conf code below. please check for the corrections

def __init__(self, group_id, topic='default', bootstrap_servers= 
['localhost:9092']):
        self.topic = topic
        self.bootstrap_servers = bootstrap_servers
        self.group_id = group_id
        self.consumer = KafkaConsumer(## Heading ##
            self.topic,
            bootstrap_servers=self.bootstrap_servers,
            auto_offset_reset='earliest',
            enable_auto_commit=True,
            group_id=self.group_id,
            value_deserializer=lambda x: loads(x.decode('utf-8')))