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Fact Check: 2020 News Of Arrest Of BJP Leaders For Aiding Maoists Falsely Linked To Recent Dantewada Attack

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On April 27, 2023, around 10 jawans of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) and the driver of the van, they were travelling in, were killed in an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) blast, set off by Maoists, in the Dantewada district of South Chhattisgarh.

Against this backdrop, a viral screenshot of a news headline claiming two BJP leaders have been arrested for aiding Maoists in their attack, is doing rounds on social media. 

A Facebook user posted the viral post with a caption: हर देश विरोधी गतिविधि में बीजेपी वाले ही पाए जाते हैं, फिर भी ये खुद को राष्ट्रवादी कहते हैं.. (English translation: Only BJP people are found in every anti-national activity, yet they call themselves nationalists..)

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FACT CHECK

NewsMobile fact-checked the viral post, and found it to be false.

Running a Google Keyword Search to know whether any BJP leader was arrested for the said charges or not, we found a news report in NDTV, dated June 16, 2020, with a title: Chhattisgarh BJP Leader Arrested For Allegedly Giving Tractors To Maoists

According to the report, Bharatiya Janata Party’s district unit vice-president Jagat Pujari and another person were arrested for allegedly supplying tractors to Maoists in Chhattisgarh. According to the police, Pujari has been involved in facilitating supply of goods and other items to Maoists for at least a decade. 

Given that the report was published in 2020, there is no possibility that this incident would be related to the recent Maoists attack. 

Conducting the Google search to know more about the arrest, we spotted another news article in India Today, dated June 14, 2020, with a title: Local BJP leader in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada under arrest for ‘supporting Naxals’.

The news article corroborates the claim made by NDTV. We found more such articles in Hindustan Times and Punjab Kesari as well. 

Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral post, claiming two BJP leaders have been arrested for aiding Maoists in their attack in Dantewada, Chhittisgarh, is false.

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