A video is widely circulated on social media showing some people with BJP caps and scarfs distributing alcohol claiming that the video is recent.
The post read, “रैली के बाद शराब पार्टी का आनंद लेते हुए भाजपा समर्थकों का वीडीयो आया सामने”
Here’s the link to the above post (archive).
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found it to be misleading.
Running a Google Keyword Search about the incident in the viral video, we identified a year-old news report published in Dainik Bhaskar. The article titled: भाजपा पर कांग्रेस ने लगाया दारू बांटने का आरोप:यूपी कांग्रेस ने वीडियो शेयर कर कैप्शन दिया- ‘भाजपा की हालत खराब, भीड़ जुटाने को बंट रही शराब’, contains the same video as the one that is viral currently.
The article informs that Congress accused the BJP of distributing alcohol in Haridwar to attract supporters to the BJP Chief, J P Nadda’s rally. The same video was uploaded by Congress on December 20, 2021, with the caption: alcohol was distributed at a BJP rally in Uttar Pradesh.
UP Tak also shared the video on December 21, 2021, and credited UP Congress’s Twitter handle. They, too, warned against the authenticity of the video.
Hence, we can ascertain that the viral video is old.
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