Does This Video Show People Recently Attacking BJP Workers in Bihar? No!

We found that neither is this video recent nor is it related to Bihar.

Fact-Check | The video is old and is being incorrectly shared as from Bihar.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

A video of a crowd attacking people carrying Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) flags is being circulated on social media platforms with users claiming it to be a recent incident from poll-bound Bihar.

What have users said?: An X (formerly Twitter) user called 'Shenaz' shared the clip with a caption that said, "The public has already started voting in Bihar even before the elections, for the BJP folks!."

An archive of the post can be found here.

(Source: X/Screenshot)

(More archives of similar such claims could be viewed here, here, and here.)

What are the facts?: The visuals date back to February 2022 and shows Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), formerly known as TRS, clashing with BJP workers in Telangana. This makes the claim false.

How did we find that out?: On conducting a reverse image search on the keyframes of the viral video using the help of Google Lens, we found a previous fact-check report published by The Quint.

A Google Lens search directed us to a fact-check by The Quint.

(Source: Google Lens/Screenshot/Altered by The Quint)

What did the report say?: It had debunked the same in February 2022, when the video was falsely shared as an incident from Uttar Pradesh.

• The report carried a news article published by Times of India (TOI) that carried similar visuals as the viral clip.

• It said that workers of TRS and BJP clashed during an anti-Modi protest in Telangana.

• The report further said that the ruling TRS had held protest across the state following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comments on Telangana state formation in the upper house.

Comparing visuals: We compared keyframes from the viral video to the visuals available in the TOI video report and found that both of them were indeed from the same incident.

A comparison clearly highlights the similarities.

(Source: TOI/Screenshot/Altered by The Quint)

Conclusion: It is evident that the video is old and is unrelated to Bihar.

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