{"id":110665,"date":"2022-01-25T20:16:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=110665"},"modified":"2022-01-25T20:16:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:46:57","slug":"old-image-of-bjp-leader-manhandled-by-farmers-viral-as-incident-from-up-poll-campaigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-image-of-bjp-leader-manhandled-by-farmers-viral-as-incident-from-up-poll-campaigning\/","title":{"rendered":"Old image of BJP leader manhandled by farmers viral as incident from UP poll campaigning"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photo that appears to be of a politician in torn clothes being rescued by the police is widely being circulated on social media. The photo is accompanied by a Hindi caption that suggests that the politician in the photo is a member of the BJP who was beaten during election campaigning. The caption also refers to the quote<\/a> given by the PM when his convoy was blocked by protestors on a flyover in Punjab. It attempts to mock the PM.<\/p>\n

The claim is viral on both Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Pragya Ke Tweet (@PragyaTweet) January 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u2014 Khushnuma khan (@Khushi9595) January 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u2014 D N Yadav (@dnyadav) January 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u2014 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3\u0905\u0939\u092e\u0926 \u091c\u0940\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@Ahmed992727) January 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It is important to note that the photo is being shared in the context of the upcoming UP assembly elections. The campaigning<\/a> for this election is in full force as Uttar Pradesh goes to poll from February 10.<\/p>\n

Misleading<\/h4>\n

We performed a reverse image search and found that the person in the photo is indeed a BJP leader but the image is from July 2021. According to a report published by PTI<\/a>, the man in the photo is Kailash Meghwal, BJP’s Scheduled Caste’s Morcha chief, who was visiting Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar district for a meeting where he was manhandled by protesting farmers.<\/p>\n

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A video of this incident can be found on the Twitter account of Trolley Times.<\/p>\n

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pic.twitter.com\/wRDekgh0es<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Trolley Times (\u0a1f\u0a30\u0a3e\u0a32\u0a40 \u0a1f\u0a3e\u0a08\u0a2e\u0a1c\u0a3c) (@trolleytimes) July 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the claim that BJP leaders were met with protests during election campaigning is not incorrect. Various reports<\/a> of BJP leaders being confronted by the people of their own constituency have emerged in the past few weeks. In Bijnor, a BJP leader was seen flaunting his gun<\/a> at the public for pelting stones at his convoy. Last week NDTV reported that Vikram Singh Saini, the BJP MLA from Khatauli, was chased away<\/a> by the people of his own constituency.<\/p>\n