{"id":89629,"date":"2021-04-05T15:53:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=89629"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:25:35","slug":"bjp-bengal-shares-clipped-video-to-claim-tmc-candidate-threatened-women-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/bjp-bengal-shares-clipped-video-to-claim-tmc-candidate-threatened-women-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP Bengal shares clipped video to claim TMC candidate threatened women voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) West Bengal tweeted a video of Trinamool Congress (TMC) Krishnanagar North assembly constituency candidate actor Koushani Mukherjee claiming that she threatened voters. In the video, she can be heard saying in Bengali, &#8220;Come here. Who are you? BJP? Everyone has mothers and sisters at home, think before you vote.&#8221; (\u098f\u09a6\u09bf\u0995\u09c7 \u0986\u09df\u0964 \u09a4\u09cb\u09b0\u09be \u0995\u09be\u09b0\u09be? \u09ac\u09bf\u099c\u09c7\u09aa\u09bf? \u0998\u09b0\u09c7\u09b0 \u09b8\u09ac\u09be\u09b0 \u09ae\u09be-\u09ac\u09cb\u09a8 \u0986\u099b\u09c7 \u09ad\u09cb\u099f \u099f\u09be \u09ad\u09c7\u09ac\u09c7 \u09a1\u09bf\u09ac\u09bf\u0964)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Everyone\u2019s got mothers &amp; sisters at home, think before you vote&#8221; &#8211; Kaushani Mukherjee, TMC candidate from Krishnanagar North.<\/p>\n<p>This is how she threatened the women of Bengal, this is Pishi\u2019s culture. The women of Bengal are definitely not safe under Pishi\u2019s rule. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sdvPrbkUND\">pic.twitter.com\/sdvPrbkUND<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BJP Bengal (@BJP4Bengal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BJP4Bengal\/status\/1378010585380483076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mukherjee is fighting the elections against BJP veteran Mukul Roy. A Facebook page dedicated to Roy shared the clip on April 2. Vice president of BJP Bengal <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210405081240\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/IamRiteshTiwari\/status\/1378061237066457088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ritesh Tiwari<\/a>\u00a0posted the video on Twitter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MukulROfficial\/videos\/831330550783763\/\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/MukulROfficial\/videos\/831330550783763\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/MukulROfficial\/videos\/831330550783763\/\">&#8220;\u09b8\u09ac\u09be\u09b0 \u0998\u09b0\u09c7 \u09ae\u09be-\u09ac\u09cb\u09a8 \u0986\u099b\u09c7, \u09ad\u09cb\u099f \u099f\u09be \u09ad\u09c7\u09ac\u09c7 \u09a6\u09bf\u09ac\u09bf&#8221; &#8211; \u0995\u09c3\u09b7\u09cd\u09a3\u09a8\u0997\u09b0 \u0989\u09a4\u09cd\u09a4\u09b0\u09c7\u09b0 \u09a4\u09c3\u09a3\u09ae\u09c2\u09b2 \u09aa\u09cd\u09b0\u09be\u09b0\u09cd\u09a5\u09c0 \u0995\u09cc\u09b6\u09be\u09a8\u09c0 \u09ae\u09c1\u0996\u09be\u09b0\u09cd\u099c\u09c0\u09b0 \u09b9\u09c1\u09ae\u0995\u09bf\u0964<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u09b8\u09ac\u09be\u09b0 \u0998\u09b0\u09c7 \u09ae\u09be-\u09ac\u09cb\u09a8 \u0986\u099b\u09c7, \u09ad\u09cb\u099f \u099f\u09be \u09ad\u09c7\u09ac\u09c7 \u09a6\u09bf\u09ac\u09bf&#8221; &#8211; \u0995\u09c3\u09b7\u09cd\u09a3\u09a8\u0997\u09b0 \u0989\u09a4\u09cd\u09a4\u09b0\u09c7\u09b0 \u09a4\u09c3\u09a3\u09ae\u09c2\u09b2 \u09aa\u09cd\u09b0\u09be\u09b0\u09cd\u09a5\u09c0 \u0995\u09cc\u09b6\u09be\u09a8\u09c0 \u09ae\u09c1\u0996\u09be\u09b0\u09cd\u099c\u09c0\u09b0 \u09b9\u09c1\u09ae\u0995\u09bf\u0964<\/p>\n<p>\u098f\u0995\u099c\u09a8 \u09ae\u09b9\u09bf\u09b2\u09be \u09b9\u09df\u09c7 \u09ac\u09be\u0982\u09b2\u09be\u09b0 \u09ae\u09be-\u09ac\u09cb\u09a8\u09c7\u09a6\u09c7\u09b0 \u0989\u09aa\u09b0 \u098f\u0987 \u09a7\u09b0\u09a3\u09c7\u09b0 \u09b9\u09c1\u09ae\u0995\u09bf! \u09aa\u09bf\u09b8\u09bf\u09b0 \u09a6\u09b2\u09c7\u09b0 \u098f\u099f\u09be\u0987 \u09b8\u0982\u09b8\u09cd\u0995\u09c3\u09a4\u09bf\u0964<\/p>\n<p>\u09aa\u09bf\u09b8\u09bf\u09b0 \u09b0\u09be\u099c\u09a4\u09cd\u09ac\u09c7 \u09ac\u09be\u0982\u09b2\u09be\u09b0 \u09ae\u09be-\u09ac\u09cb\u09a8\u09c7\u09b0\u09be \u0985\u09b8\u09c1\u09b0\u0995\u09cd\u09b7\u09bf\u09a4!<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MukulROfficial\/\">Mukul Roy<\/a> on Friday, 2 April 2021<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Republic TV said in a broadcast, &#8220;And we have breaking news coming in from poll-bound West Bengal where TMC candidate from Krishnanagar north issued open threats to BJP supporters. In the video, Koushani Mukherjee can be heard saying those who have mothers and sisters at home must think before they cast their vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Republic TV broadcast falsely claiming TMC candidate issued open threats to BJP supporters\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/533109207?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hindi outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210405081637\/https:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/hindi\/zeesalaam\/news\/video-viral-of-tmc-candidate-koushani-mukherjee-threatening-voters\/878031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zee Salam<\/a> published a report on BJP&#8217;s allegations. Journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210405082941\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/abhijitmajumder\/status\/1378603910567366656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abhijit Majumdar<\/a> wrote that Mukherjee &#8220;warned voters&#8221;. Calcutta university&#8217;s former vice-chancellor, Ashutosh Mujherhee&#8217;s great-grandson, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210405083319\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/Satyanewshi\/status\/1378162907339313153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chayan Chatterjee<\/a>, shared the video too.<\/p>\n<p>News18 Bangla played the video during a broadcast and stated that Mukherjee&#8217;s statement has led to a controversy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Krishnanagar \u0989\u09a4\u09cd\u09a4\u09b0\u09c7\u09b0 TMC \u09aa\u09cd\u09b0\u09be\u09b0\u09cd\u09a5\u09c0 Koushani, \u09aa\u09cd\u09b0\u099a\u09be\u09b0\u09c7\u09b0 \u09b8\u09ae\u09df \u09ae\u09a8\u09cd\u09a4\u09ac\u09cd\u09af\u09c7 \u09ac\u09bf\u09a4\u09b0\u09cd\u0995\u09c7 \u099c\u09dc\u09be\u09b2\u09c7\u09a8 Koushani Banerjee!\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s7BRTgow3Kw?start=22&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210405082947\/https:\/\/www.opindia.com\/2021\/04\/tmc-candidate-koushani-banerjee-invokes-mother-sister-to-scare-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OpIndia<\/a> published a report based on News18&#8217;s report. Another propaganda website Kreately, promoted by BJP leader Kapil Mishra, claimed that Mukherjee threatened the women of Bengal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Remember this &#8211; Let us not make Bengal another Bangladesh<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone\u2019s got mothers &amp; sisters at home, think before you vote&#8221; &#8211; Kaushani Mukherjee, TMC candidate from Krishnanagar North.<\/p>\n<p>This is how she threatened the women of Bengal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3COUY07HQs\">pic.twitter.com\/3COUY07HQs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kreately.in (@KreatelyMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KreatelyMedia\/status\/1378040478558457869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Clipped video<\/h4>\n<p>BJP shared a clipped video of TMC candidate Koushani Mukherjee. The actor herself shared a longer video where she can be heard saying, &#8220;Come here. Who are you? BJP? Everyone has mothers and sisters at home, think before you vote. <strong>Think about the safety of your mothers and sisters. If didi (Mamata Banerjee) is not there, mothers and sisters will not be safe in Bengal<\/strong>.&#8221; (\u098f\u09a6\u09bf\u0995\u09c7 \u0986\u09df\u0964 \u09a4\u09cb\u09b0\u09be \u0995\u09be\u09b0\u09be? \u09ac\u09bf\u099c\u09c7\u09aa\u09bf? \u0998\u09b0\u09c7\u09b0 \u09b8\u09ac\u09be\u09b0 \u09ae\u09be-\u09ac\u09cb\u09a8 \u0986\u099b\u09c7 \u09ad\u09cb\u099f \u099f\u09be \u09ad\u09c7\u09ac\u09c7 \u09a1\u09bf\u09ac\u09bf\u0964 \u09ae\u09be-\u09ac\u09cb\u09a8\u09c7\u09b0 \u09b8\u09c1\u09b0\u0995\u09cd\u09b7\u09be\u09b0 \u0995\u09a5\u09be \u09ad\u09c7\u09ac\u09c7 \u09a6\u09bf\u09ac\u09c7\u09a8\u0964 \u09a6\u09bf\u09a6\u09bf \u09a8\u09be \u09a5\u09be\u0995\u09b2\u09c7 \u09ae\u09be-\u09ac\u09cb\u09a8 \u09b6\u09c1\u09b0\u0996\u09cb \u09a8\u09be \u09ac\u09be\u0982\u09b2\u09be\u09df\u0964) The part where she refers to women&#8217;s safety was cropped out of the video.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/koushanimukherjee.actress\/posts\/1922955367875537\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/koushanimukherjee.actress\/posts\/1922955367875537\"><p>\u0997\u09a4\u0995\u09be\u09b2 \u0986\u09ae\u09be\u09b0 \u098f\u0995\u099f\u09bf \u09ad\u09bf\u09a1\u09bf\u0993 \u09aa\u09cd\u09b0\u099a\u09a8\u09cd\u09a1 \u09ad\u09be\u09ac\u09c7 \u09b8\u09cb\u09b6\u09cd\u09af\u09be\u09b2 \u09ae\u09bf\u09a1\u09bf\u09af\u09bc\u09be\u09af\u09bc \u09aa\u09cd\u09b0\u099a\u09be\u09b0 \u0995\u09b0\u09c7\u09a8 \u09ac\u09bf\u09b0\u09cb\u09a7\u09c0 \u09a6\u09b2\u09c7\u09b0 \u0995\u09bf\u099b\u09c1 \u09ac\u09a8\u09cd\u09a7\u09c1\u09b0\u09be, \u0986\u09ae\u09bf \u09ac\u09b2\u09c7\u099b\u09bf\u09b2\u09be\u09ae \u09ad\u09cb\u099f\u099f\u09be \u09a6\u09c7\u0996\u09c7 \u09a6\u09c7\u09ac\u09c7\u09a8&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/koushanimukherjee.actress\/\">Koushani Mukherjee<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/koushanimukherjee.actress\/posts\/1922955367875537\">Saturday, 3 April 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mukherjee had also uploaded a Facebook Live clarifying the misinformation. &#8220;What I actually said was that cast your votes thinking about the safety of women. Women are unsafe in UP. We saw what happened in Hathras. If BJP comes to power in Bengal, women won&#8217;t be safe. So think before you vote, and don&#8217;t fall into BJP&#8217;s trap,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/106933941463910\/videos\/519365199436823\/\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/106933941463910\/videos\/519365199436823\/\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Koushani-Mukherjee-AITC-106933941463910\/\">Koushani Mukherjee &#8211; AITC<\/a> on Friday, 2 April 2021<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>BJP Bengal and several pro-BJP propaganda handles amplified a clipped video of TMC&#8217;s Krishnanagar North candidate Koushani Mukherjee to falsely suggest she threatened voters.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Update: Republic TV took down its broadcast from YouTube after this fact-check was published. The link has been replaced with a downloaded video.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) West Bengal tweeted a video of Trinamool Congress (TMC) Krishnanagar North assembly constituency candidate actor Koushani Mukherjee claiming that she threatened voters. In the video, she can be heard saying in Bengali, &#8220;Come here. Who are you? BJP? Everyone has mothers and sisters at home, think before you vote.&#8221; (\u098f\u09a6\u09bf\u0995\u09c7 \u0986\u09df\u0964 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":89645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-89629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/04\/Untitled-design.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89629"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89675,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89629\/revisions\/89675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89629"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=89629"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=89629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}