Ahead of the impending Karnataka Assembly elections, the video of a BJP leader — greeted with a garland of shoes — is being circulated on social media.
The caption of the video reads: अगर आप इस वीडियो को गुगल में सर्च करोगे तो पाओगे के ये हार जूते का नहीं चंदन का हार है। ऐसे स्वागत होता है बीजेपी वालों का। (English translation: If you search this video in Google, you will find that this necklace is not of shoes but of sandalwood. BJP people are welcomed like this.)
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post, and found it to be old.
Running the Reverse Image Search, we spotted the same video uploaded by News Tak, dated January 7, 2018, with a title: “एमपी में बीजेपी नेता को सरेआम पहना दी जूतों की माला.” (English translation: Locals put a garland of shoes on BJP leader in Madhya Pradesh)
The same video was also uploaded by the 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 video earlier when it was falsely linked to Gujarat Assembly elections.
https://newsmobile.in/articles/2022/11/21/fact-check-2018-video-of-bjp-leader-greeted-with-a-garland-of-shoes-in-mp-linked-with-gujarat-elections/
So, it is clear that the incident is old.
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