The Cockroach Janata Party is leading widespread demonstrations demanding the resignation of India’s Chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and the immediate suspension of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Following the initial shutdown of the October 10 demonstration at Jantar Mantar, on October 16, the group organized the ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ (Wave the Tricolour) march. CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke was released by a Delhi court on Saturday, October 17, however, on October 19, CJP legal head Ratna Singh reported significant delays in the bail hearings for co-convenors Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka.
Amidst these developments, a video is being widely shares on social media platforms. The video features garbage being dumped on the roads to thwart the protests by CJP. During the investigation we found that the viral video is old and related to a protest by sanitation workers. The viral claim is misleading.
Claim:
Instagram user Brijesh Pal shared the video with misleading claim.
Other users are also sharing same video with similar claims.
Investigation:
We started the investigation by running a reverse image search on the keyframes obtained from the viral video.
We found the video posted on an Instagram profile on August 17, which was before the CJP protests began.
The caption stated that this was a protest by sanitation workers in Panipat.
We then ran a Google search using keywords. We found similar videos and news reports about the protest.
We found a video on the news report on amarujala.com too.
We also found a similar video on bhaskar.com.
The locations in the news report mentioned locations such as Samvidhan Chowk and GT Road.
We then confirmed the location using Geolocation technique. The location from the video was on Karnal – Panipat Road.
Conclusion: Old video from protest of sanitation workers in Panipat is being shared as recent from CJP protests. The viral claim is misleading.
