CLAIM
A video of Dilip Ghosh, president of West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party getting heckled allegedly by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha workers in Darjeeling has been circulating on social media.
The video shows BJP chief Dilip Ghosh getting heckled and assaulted by a group of people.
The posts circulated question the law and order in West Bengal with the video.
The same video had gone viral a week before with over 5,000 retweets with the caption translating to “This is peaceful Bengal, it should get a Nobel Peace Prize, don’t know where is the police, where is administration.”
The video was circulated on Facebook as well.
FACT
The video is an old incident that took place in 2017. The video has resurfaced, questioning peace in West Bengal.
According to a 2017 The Hindu report, Ghosh and his supporters were assaulted by a group of locals in the Darjeeling Hills on 5 October 2017 while he was on a two-day visit to address a meeting.
The State BJP chief came out of the auditorium with his supporters but the locals followed them.
“Mr Ghosh and his supporters were chased and those trying to protect him were pushed and shoved, and a few were severely beaten up. In one video footage of the attack, the Gorkha cap worn by Mr. Ghosh is seen being knocked off by a local with an umbrella,” the report said.
Ghosh had then alleged that supporters of rebel Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) leader Binoy Tamang were behind the attack.
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