Lighthouse Journalism came across a video of 1 min 50 seconds. It was claimed along with the video that the people seen in the video are the workers of Congress and they are jumping on the posters that carry the image of Hindu Gods. During the investigation, we found the claim to be false. The people seen in the video are workers of the women of BJP, BJP Mahila Morcha.
Claim:
X user Angry Bird shared the video on the Twitter handle.
Check the archive version of the post here.
Other users too are sharing the video with the same claim.
Investigation:
We started the investigation by uploading the video in the Chrome extension of the InVid tool. We then ran a reverse image search on the keyframes obtained through the same.
Through reverse image search we found a tweet by X user India Awakened.
The post mentions that the video features shameful acts of the BJP Mahila Morcha of trampling posters featuring Hindu God.
We also found a tweet by another user who also mentioned that the video featured the workers of BJP Mahila Morcha.
On doing a keyword search we found a news report about the incident in the Free Press Journal.
The report mentioned: Women from BJP Mahila Morcha staged a protest outside Congress state chief Jitu Patwari’s residence in Indore on Friday. Raising objections against Patwari’s indecent remarks about former minister Dabra Imarti Devi, hundreds of women reached Patwari’s residence located at Bijalpur in Indore, with bangles in hand, in an effort to insult him.
The news report also carried a tweet by Congress state spokesperson of Madhya Pradesh.
The report also featured a clarification by Congress’ Jitu Patwari on his remarks for BJP leader Imarti Devi.
We also found a few more news reports about the incident.
Conclusion: Video of angry BJP Mahila Morcha workers trampling Congress’ Jitu Patwari’s poster featuring God Rama is being shared with false claims of Congress workers disrespecting posters of Hindu Gods. Viral claim is false.
