“Video of BJP panelists being thrashed in a TV debate”
Social media posts
Claim dated 30 Jan 2022.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The viral video actually shows a fistfight of two panelists in an Afghan news channel 1TV Kabul, and the incident happened in 2016. Further, there are no recent reports of BJP leaders getting into a brawl in television debates
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 30 January 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 2 February 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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