“Videos show UP Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma being attacked and chased away by the people”
What FACTLY found
Both the videos are neither related to UP Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma nor Uttar Pradesh. The first video was taken in April 2021, in the context of the Bengal Assembly elections, when BJP candidate Anirban Ganguly’s vehicle was attacked. The second video shows a recent attack on former Jharkhand BJP President Ravindra Rai in Bokaro by protesters, who are agitating against the exclusion of Bhojpuri and Magahi from the regional language list of the State’s newly made recruitment policy. Als...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 5 February 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 8 February 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
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