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No, That’s Not Ambedkar’s Statue Being Razed by BJP, it’s Lenin’s

A viral video of a statue being razed to the ground is being shared as the work of BJP MLA Karni SIngh.

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CLAIM

A viral video of a statue being razed to the ground is being shared on social media as the work of BJP MLA Karni SIngh.

The video has been shared with a post saying, "विनाश काले विपरीत बुद्धि
बाबा साहब डॉक्टर भीमराव अम्बेडकर जी की प्रतिमा गिराते बीजेपी नेता बीजेपी विधायक करणी सिंह की इस हरकत पर क्या कहेंगे मोदी जी इस वीडियो को इतना वायरल करो कि यह वीडियो पूरा भारत देख सके"

(Translated: The statue of Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar being razed to the ground by BJP MLA Karni Singh. What will Modi say about this? Make the video viral so it reaches whole of India.)

*विनाश काले विपरीत बुद्धि* बाबा साहब डॉक्टर भीमराव अम्बेडकर जी की प्रतिमा गिराते बीजेपी नेता बीजेपी विधायक करणी सिंह...

Posted by Daljeet Singh Delighty on Monday, April 15, 2019

In the video, one can see several men dressed in saffron T-shirts, wearing caps with the BJP's logo on it film as a statue is being razed to the ground by a bulldozer, in what appears to be a town square.

The video has been shared by many on social media since as far as June 2018 with the same claim, and appears to have resurfaced now.

A viral video of a statue being razed to the ground is being shared  as the work of BJP MLA Karni SIngh.
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TRUE OR FALSE?

A reverse image search of a key frame from the video led us to a YouTube video uploaded on 16 March 2018 with the same claim as the one that is currently viral.

In the responses to this video, a user by the name Indra Awasthi had flagged off an NDTV article dating back to 9 March 2018, which claimed that the statue in the video was actually of Lenin’s.

Sure enough, we found that the video is from Tripura's Belonia town and shows right-wing supporters razing down a statue of communist icon Vladimir Lenin on 5 March 2018, less than 48 hours after the BJP won the mandate in the state Assembly elections.

A still from the video had also been shared by the CPI(M)'s official Twitter handle the same day, claiming that the BJP could break their statues, but not their spirit.

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