{"id":33205,"date":"2019-04-12T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T06:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=33205"},"modified":"2019-04-12T14:56:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T09:26:48","slug":"video-from-2017-viral-as-burqa-clad-women-casting-fake-votes-in-muzaffarnagar-ls-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-from-2017-viral-as-burqa-clad-women-casting-fake-votes-in-muzaffarnagar-ls-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Video from 2017 viral as burqa-clad women casting fake votes in Muzaffarnagar LS polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video currently viral on social media shows a woman seizing purported fake Aadhaar cards from a group of Burqa-clad voters. It is being claimed that the woman was a Muslim worker of the BJP from Muzaffarnagar, a constituency that went into polls on April 12. <em>&#8220;@\u0938\u0902\u091c\u0940\u0935 \u092c\u093e\u0932\u093f\u092f\u093e\u0928-\u092e\u0941\u091c\u093c\u092b\u093c\u094d\u092b\u093c\u0930\u0928\u0917\u0930 \u0905\u0917\u0947\u0928,\u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u092e\u0941\u0938\u094d\u0932\u093f\u092e \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u092f\u0915\u0930\u094d\u0924\u093e \u0926\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0930\u093e \u092b\u093c\u0930\u094d\u091c\u093c\u0940 \u0935\u094b\u091f\u093f\u0902\u0917 \u0915\u093e \u0930\u0902\u0917\u0947 \u0939\u093e\u0925 \u092a\u0915\u0921\u093c\u0928\u093e,\u092a\u0939\u091a\u093e\u0928 \u092a\u0924\u094d\u0930 \u0915\u093f\u0938\u0940 \u0914\u0930 \u0915\u093e \u0935\u094b\u091f \u0915\u094b\u0908 \u0914\u0930 \u0921\u093e\u0932 \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0939\u0948 (@Sanjeev Balyan- Muzaffarnagar again, fake voting caught red-handed by BJP&#8217;s Muslim worker. Identity card belongs to someone else and votes are being cast in the name of another person,&#8221;<\/em> claims the narrative affixed to the video.<\/p>\n<p>The video is being shared in the backdrop of Muzaffarnagar BJP candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/phase-1-polling-bjp-candidate-sanjeev-balyan-alleges-fake-voting-in-muzaffarnagar\/videoshow\/68831421.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sanjeev Balyan&#8217;s allegations<\/a> that people were casting fake votes dressed as burqa-clad women. To support Balyan&#8217;s claims, social media was earlier brimming with old images of burqa-clad men being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/vote-jihad-burqa-clad-man-caught-voting-old-images-viral-with-false-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">falsely shared<\/a> as them casting fake votes in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/VictoryForNamo\/status\/1116312417116487681<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Muslim women got caught in fraud voting, wearing burqa in <s>#<\/s>Muzaffarnagar in uttar pradesh. Do you beat @narendramodi like this? Where is Election Commission?,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>is another caption used to share the video.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/singhsandeep792\/status\/1116285781943947264<\/p>\n<p>The video is viral on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top\/?q=%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%B0%20%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B6%20%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%20%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0%20%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%20%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%20%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%20%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%88%20%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%9C%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AE%20%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%87&amp;opensearch=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> and WhatsApp alike with the caption &#8211;<em>\u00a0&#8220;\u0909\u0924\u094d\u0924\u0930 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0926\u0947\u0936 \u0915\u0947 \u092e\u0941\u091c\u092b\u094d\u092b\u0930\u0928\u0917\u0930 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0941\u0930\u094d\u0915\u093e \u092a\u0939\u0928\u0915\u0930 \u092b\u0930\u094d\u091c\u0940 \u0935\u094b\u091f\u093f\u0902\u0917 \u0915\u0930\u0924\u0940 \u0939\u0941\u0908 \u092a\u0915\u095c\u0940 \u0917\u092f\u0940 \u092e\u0941\u0938\u094d\u0932\u093f\u092e \u092e\u0939\u093f\u0932\u093e\u092f\u0947 (Muslim women wearing burqa were caught in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Muzaffarnagar casting fake votes.)&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33219 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/image-1-e1555061195159.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/image-1-e1555061195159.png 353w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/image-1-e1555061195159-206x300.png 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>2017 video<\/h2>\n<p>If one carefully listens to the video, the woman takes her name and that of her party in the first few seconds. <em>&#8220;\u092e\u0948\u0902 BSP\u092a\u094d\u0930\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0936\u0940 \u0936\u0947\u0932\u093e \u0939\u0942\u0901 ,<\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em> she can be heard saying. Alt News found that a woman named Shaila Khan was fielded by the Bahujan Samajwadi Party in 2017 as the candidate for Rampur nagar palika chairperson.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33210 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/rampur.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"832\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/rampur.png 832w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/rampur-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/04\/rampur-768x412.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Upon searching for &#8220;Shaila Khan BSP fake voting Rampur elections&#8221;, we found that the video currently viral was posted by a YouTube user in 2017 as &#8211; <em>&#8220;Rampur Nagar Nikay Election Cheating.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HLtskmgRKMs&#038;feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n<p>While Alt News was unable to locate news articles reporting the alleged incident, we found that Shaila Khan was indeed a BSP worker. A campaign poster of the BSP carried her photograph.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1744126182338934&amp;set=a.132523683499200&amp;type=3\" data-width=\"350\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1744126182338934&amp;set=a.132523683499200&amp;type=3\"><p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/momin.khan.714655\">Momin Khan<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1744126182338934&amp;set=a.132523683499200&amp;type=3\">Wednesday, 22 November 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>An old video was lifted from the internet and circulated as an incident pertaining to the ongoing general elections. The woman in the video was a BSP member and not a BJP worker. After BJP&#8217;s Muzaffarnagar candidate Sanjeev Balyan&#8217;s claim that fake votes were cast in Muzzafarnagar by people dressed up in burqas, this was the second attempt to support his allegation using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/vote-jihad-burqa-clad-man-caught-voting-old-images-viral-with-false-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">misinformation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video currently viral on social media shows a woman seizing purported fake Aadhaar cards from a group of Burqa-clad voters. It is being claimed that the woman was a Muslim worker of the BJP from Muzaffarnagar, a constituency that went into polls on April 12. &#8220;@\u0938\u0902\u091c\u0940\u0935 \u092c\u093e\u0932\u093f\u092f\u093e\u0928-\u092e\u0941\u091c\u093c\u092b\u093c\u094d\u092b\u093c\u0930\u0928\u0917\u0930 \u0905\u0917\u0947\u0928,\u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u092e\u0941\u0938\u094d\u0932\u093f\u092e \u0915\u093e\u0930\u094d\u092f\u0915\u0930\u094d\u0924\u093e \u0926\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0930\u093e \u092b\u093c\u0930\u094d\u091c\u093c\u0940 \u0935\u094b\u091f\u093f\u0902\u0917 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":33218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-33205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Video from 2017 viral as burqa-clad women casting fake votes in Muzaffarnagar LS polls - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Video from 2017 viral as burqa-clad women casting fake votes in Muzaffarnagar LS polls - Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A video currently viral on social media shows a woman seizing purported fake Aadhaar cards from a group of Burqa-clad voters. 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