“Rakesh Tikait was attacked with ink and a mic during a recent 2024 press conference in Karnataka.”
What FACTLY found
The viral videos are old and from two separate incidents. One is from January 2021 when the Uttar Pradesh government ordered farmers to vacate the Ghazipur border, leading to a tearful response from BKU spokesperson Rakesh Tikait. The other videos are from May 2022, when miscreants attacked Tikait at a press conference, hitting him with a microphone and throwing black ink at him, causing chaos and a ruckus in the conference room in Bengaluru. Tikait was in Bengaluru in 2022 to address allegat...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 9 December 2024. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 9 December 2024. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/reel/2094825007619573
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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.