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A video is being shared on social media in the name of beating a BJP leader in Manipur. It can be seen in this video that the BJP leaders who came among the public were beaten and chased by the mob. This video was shared by many authenticated and unauthenticated users on X.
- Journalist Sandeep Chaudhary’s parody account shared the video and wrote – Is this video from Manipur, where a BJP leader was brutally beaten?
More than 4 lakh people have watched the video shared by the parody account so far. The post has received more than 14 thousand likes and more than 4 thousand people have retweeted it.
A user named Zeeshan Khan shared the video and wrote – This is how BJP is welcomed in Manipur.
A genuine user named Amarendra Patel wrote – 2024, BJP crosses 400 but public welcomes BJP this way.
Another authentic user also shared the video with the same claim and caption.
The truth about the viral video…
To know the truth about the viral video, we reverse-engineered its keyframe on Google. While searching we found this video with information on a YouTube channel called NYOOOZ TV.
According to the channel, this video from October 5, 2017 is from Darjeeling. Where West Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh was attacked by Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) supporters while protesting. At the same time, this video was also uploaded on the channel on 5 October 2017.
Screenshot of the video available on the YouTube channel.
During the investigation, we also found news related to this case on Navbharat Times website. News link…
A snapshot of the news available on the website.
According to the website, on October 5, 2017, West Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh was attacked in Darjeeling. In Darjeeling, some BJP workers were beaten up by unknown youths in front of him. The allegation was that the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) supporters of rebel leader Binay Tamang staged this incident.
BJP said Tamang’s supporters badly beat up two of its workers. Dilip Ghosh had said about this incident that it was a pre-planned attack. I was attacked while rescuing my workers. He was injured. During this period I was also pushed by the attackers. At the same time, this news was also published on the website on 5 October 2017.
This is clearly being done with viral videos on social media. the claim is completely wrong Yes. This 6-year-old video is from Darjeeling, where BJP leader Dilip Ghosh and other BJP supporters were attacked by unknown people.
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