Nitish Kumar took oath as Bihar’s Chief Minister for the eighth time on August 10, 2022, after resigning as the CM and ending his alliance with BJP a day before. Kumar formed a Mahagathbandhan with RJD and Congress, making Tejashwi Yadav of RJD as his deputy.
Soon after, a video showing people attacking an auto with BJP flags, followed by a scuffle between the two groups, is doing the rounds on social media. The post claims that BJP workers were attacked by JD(U) leaders after Nitish Kumar took oath as Bihar CM.
The post is shared with the text: Ye tho hona hi thaaa…It’s not even one day the alliance ended and BJP receives its share of Hatred in return…#BiharPolitics
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found that it was not from Bihar.
In the video, we noticed that slogans raised in the melee were in Bangla. Running a keyword search, we also found a Times Now video — dated August 6, 2022 — featuring similar visuals, with a title: West Bengal: Clash raged between TMC and BJP workers, TMC alleges BJP blocked convoy | English News
According to the video description, the incident is in the Hoogly district of West Bengal, where members of TMC and BJP clashed with each other. It was also mentioned that the TMC MLA visible in the video was Asit Mazumdar.
Another report by NDTV, dated August 5, 2022, states that Asit Majumdar — a three-time MLA of the area — claimed that he confronted BJP workers as they were making wild allegations against TMC. “They stopped my car and heckled me after which our women workers intervened,” NDTV quoted Majumdar as saying.
We found that similar reports were also published by TOI, TV9 Bangla and The Indian Express (Bengali).
Thus, it is now clear that the video is from West Bengal, and not Bihar.
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