An image showing several people holding Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) flags and protesting in front of Canara Bank is being shared on social media.
What is the claim?: Those sharing the image wrote that the BJP workers mistook Canara Bank to be a Canadian organisation and started protesting in front of it.
This comes amid the ongoing diplomatic row between India and Canada.
Who shared it?: The image was shared by former cricketer and member of Lok Sabha, Kirti Azad. The post had garnered over 592.4K views at the time of writing this story.
![The original image does not have a Canara Bank board. It dates back to 2020 and is from a BJP protest held in Ooty.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2023-09%2Fa768b99e-f85d-41a4-84c7-82f8dce8d8c9%2FScreenshot_2023_09_28_at_12_27_05_PM.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
An archive of the post can be found here.
(Source: X/Screenshot)
How did we find out?: We conducted a Google reverse image and came across a report published by Tamil news website Maalaimalar where a similar image was shared on 30 August 2020.
The story was about a protest held by the BJP workers in Ooty over removing a flagpole in the city.
![The original image does not have a Canara Bank board. It dates back to 2020 and is from a BJP protest held in Ooty.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2023-09%2Ff28970c9-1785-400f-9bb1-205f6b78317a%2FScreenshot_2023_09_28_at_12_47_12_PM.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
Here is a preview of the report published by Maalaimalar.
(Source: Maalaimalar/Screenshot)
The report noted that the party had not obtained permission to plant the flagpole as it was on Ooty's municipality land.
We noticed that the original image had Xiaomi, a consumer electronics company's board, instead of the "Canara Bank" board.
Next, we compared the viral image with the image in the article.
![The original image does not have a Canara Bank board. It dates back to 2020 and is from a BJP protest held in Ooty.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2023-09%2Fb4755ec2-d21a-49f8-b68e-2002ba1f4b6f%2FKhushi___WQ__56_.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
Here is a comparison between the two images.
(Source: Altered by The Quint)
Additionally, we found the same image in another article on a website called Top Tamil News and this was also shared in September 2020.
Conclusion: This old image has been edited to add the Canara Bank board to take a dig at the BJP supporters. The original image has a Xiaomi board in the background and is from Ooty.
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