Ahead of the impending Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections, a video of a BJP leader being greeted with a garland of shoes is circulating on social media.
“#रुझान #आना #शुरू 😊😁2022 की तैयारी मे 5 साल बाद जनता के बीच मे पहुँचे #भाजपा #विधायक जी का जनता स्वागत करती हुई 😊😂😂 जूता चप्पल की माला” the post read.
(Translation: Trends have started coming. In the preparation of 2022 [elections], BJP MLA who stepped amongst the people after 5 years was welcomed like this. With a garland of shoes)
Here’s the link to the post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found it to be old and misleading.
We extracted keyframes from the video and put them through Reverse Image Search. The search led us to the same video, uploaded by News Tak on January 7, 2018.
“एमपी में बीजेपी नेता को सरेआम पहना दी जूतों की माला | BIG STORY | News Tak,” the video was titled. (Translation: Locals put a garland of shoes on BJP candidate in Madhya Pradesh)
The same video was also uploaded by newswire ANI on January 7, 2018.
According to the report, the incident came to light from Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district and the man in the video is BJP leader Dinesh Sharma.
We also found a report by NDTV dated January 8, 2018, regarding the same incident.
NewsMobile had debunked the same videos in 2020 too, when they were falsely linked to the then upcoming Bihar Assembly Elections.
https://newsmobile.in/articles/2020/10/19/fact-check-this-trending-video-is-not-from-the-2020-bihar-elections-heres-the-truth/
From the above information, it is clear that the incident is old and has no relation to the election campaign in Uttar Pradesh. Hence, the post in question is false.
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