Ahead of the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections, a video is doing the rounds on social media showing few men involved in a scuffle. It has been claimed that the video was shot during an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) meeting and senior AAP leader and MP Sanjay Singh hit his own party member with shoes.
The caption with the video reads: “दिल्ली में #आमआदमीपार्टी की मिटिंग चल रही थी जिसमें सांसद #संजयसिंह ने अपनी ही पार्टी के नेता को जूते से पीटा…. सामने वाले ने संजयसिंह को जूते से पीटा….
ये दिल्ली नहीं सम्हाल पा रहे हैं और अब #गुजरात में सरकार बनाने के ख्वाब देख रहे हैं….!!!!” (English translation: A meeting of #AamAadmiParty was going on in Delhi in which MP #SanjaySingh beat his own party leader with shoes…. The person in front beat Sanjay Singh with a shoe…They are not able to handle Delhi and now dreaming of forming a government in #Gujarat…!!!!)
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post, and found it to be false.
Extracting keyframes from the video, we found the same video shared by a journalist, in 2019.
“UP’s Sant Kabir Nagar BJP MP Sharad Tripathi attacked local BJP MLA Rakesh Baghel with a shoe during a public meeting after an altercation began over MP’s name missing from inauguration plate,” the tweet, dated March 6, 2019, reads.
UP’s Sant Kabir Nagar BJP MP Sharad Tripathi attacked local BJP MLA Rakesh Baghel with shoe during a public meeting after an altercation began over MP’s name missing from inauguration plate. pic.twitter.com/BL6RiMTLkX
— Piyush Rai (@Benarasiyaa) March 6, 2019
A NewsMobile report, dated March 6, 2019, had also covered the same incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Sant Kabir Nagar, where BJP MP Sharad Tripathi and BJP MLA Rakesh Singh got involved in a scuffle.
According to the report, the two lawmakers were arguing over the placement of names on a foundation stone of a project.
News wire ANI UP also tweeted the same video on March 6, 2019.
#WATCH Sant Kabir Nagar: BJP MP Sharad Tripathi and BJP MLA Rakesh Singh exchange blows after an argument broke out over placement of names on a foundation stone of a project pic.twitter.com/gP5RM8DgId
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) March 6, 20194
NewsMobile debunked the same video in 2020, when it was shared with a claim that a BJP member was beaten with shoes for speaking on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a ministerial meeting in India.
https://newsmobile.in/articles/2021/04/10/fact-check-old-video-of-scuffle-between-bjp-leaders-shared-with-false-claim/
Hence, the above information proves that the viral video is old and the claim is false.
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