A video where people can be seen hurling chairs at one another has gone viral on social media. Some policemen can also be seen in the video. It is being claimed that the video is from Maholi Tehsil in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, and shows a clash between BJP MP Rekha Verma and MLA Shashank Trivedi. The caption also insinuates that the video show BJP party members fighting with each other ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
The video is being shared with a caption that reads, “सीतापुर की महोली तहसील में भाजपा सांसद रेखा वर्मा और विधायक शशांक त्रिवेदी आपस में भिड़े। जमकर चले #जूता_चप्पल ।। ये उत्तरप्रदेश के विकास करेंगे”
(English translation: BJP MP Rekha Verma and MLA Shashank Trivedi clash in Maholi Tehsil of Sitapur. #Shoes_slippers were also thrown. They will develop Uttar Pradesh.)
The link to the post can be seen here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile did a fact-check and found the claim to be misleading.
On breaking the video into multiple keyframes and doing a Google Reverse Image, we found that the same video was uploaded by Live Hindustan on January 13, 2018. The video was shared with a title that read, “भाजपा MP और MLA में नोकझोंक, समर्थकों में चले लात घूंसे और कुर्सियां.”
India TV also uploaded the video on January 14, 2018, with the caption, “Sitapur: BJP MP and MLA scuffle over the issue of distribution of blankets to the poor.”
Thus, a 2018 video of a scuffle between BJP party members over blanket distribution has gone viral with a misleading claim that the video shows a recent scuffle between two BJP leaders in the backdrop of upcoming UP Assembly Elections 2022.
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