Dhaka women’s ‘friendship march’ video falsely shared as West Bengal, inviting filthy comments

A video clip of a group of women raising slogans on the roadside has been gathering a lot of traction on social media. The women in the video are seen holding placards and chanting in Bengali, “চেয়েছিলাম হিসসা, হয়ে গেলাম বেশ্যা’ (We asked for our rights, but we were called prostitutes). 

Indian social media users have shared the video with the caption, “Guess which state”, obliquely implying that the clip is from West Bengal. Among them is the X handle of propaganda account Kreately Media. (Archived link)

Guess the state pic.twitter.com/lfxkBTYTZQ

— Kreately.in (@KreatelyMedia) May 24, 2025

Quote-tweeting this post, a number of users directly claimed that the visuals were from West Bengal. One user also suggested that they could tell this was West Bengal without even opening the video. (Link 1, Link 2, Link 3)

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Right-wing user Amitabh Chaudhary, who shares disinformation and propaganda on a regular basis, also posted this clip with the same caption of ‘Guess the state’. In comments, users have made filthy remarks targeting women of West Bengal. (Archived link)

X user @satyaagrahindia also promoted this video. (Archived version)

Fact Check

Alt News performed a reverse image search using frames taken from the video on YouTube. We discovered that Bangladeshi news channel ‘Voice24NEWS’ had posted this video on May 17, 2025. The words ‘নারীর ডাকে মৈত্রী যাত্রা’ (Friendship March convened by Women) are embedded on the clip. The caption also says the same. 

The march was held along Manik Mia Avenue in Dhaka, a major thoroughfare on the south boundary of the national parliament house Complex. Several media reports covered the event held on May 16 of this year to demand equality for women. (Link 1, Link 2)

Here is a screengrab from BBC Bangla’s video report covering the march:

Bangladeshi newspaper ‘আজকের প্রতিদিন’ also posted a video about the initiative on Facebook. This video report also contains the video clip in question.

To sum up, social media users falsely claimed that a clip of a demonstration led by women in Bangladesh was from West Bengal, India.