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| - Fact Check: Spat between Naidu and Pawan Kaylan supporters? No, both men are TDP members
India Today found that the video in question shows a fight between two TDP councillors and is not related to the recent political developments in Andhra Pradesh.
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India Today Fact Check
This is a 2016 incident involving two councillors of the Telugu Desam Party and is not related to recent events in Andhra Pradesh.
Actor-turned-politician and Jana Sena Party chief K Pawan Kalyan announced all-out support for jailed Telugu Desam Party supremo and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on October 4. Following this, speculations about Pawan Kalyan leaving the National Democratic Alliance spread like wildfire.
Pawan Kalyan later clarified that he was not leaving the Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance. And if social media is to be believed, a rift now appears to have formed between supporters of his party and those of Naidu.
A video of a violent altercation, allegedly between a TDP supporter and a JSP supporter in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, was widely shared. Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma also shared the video with a similar claim. The archived version of such posts can be seen here and here.
India Today found that the video in question is more than seven years old. Furthermore, according to reports from 2016, both men involved in the scuffle were councillors from the TDP.
Our Probe
A reverse search of the viral video’s keyframes led us to an NDTV report from March 1, 2016, that contained a video of the same incident shot from various angles. According to the report, this incident took place during a municipal council meeting in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, and both men were TDP councillors.
The two men were reportedly fighting over whose name should be entered first in the minutes of the meeting. Then-chief minister of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu reportedly took disciplinary action against both men after the footage went viral on social media.
According to a Deccan Chronicle report from the same time, the incident happened at a council meeting in Tenali municipality, and the two councillors fighting were Gummadi Ramesh and Pasupulati Trimurtulu.
The dispute began when Ramesh insisted that every issue debated in the council should be documented in the minutes' book to ensure transparency, while Trimurtulu believed that trivial matters need not be recorded. The verbal argument escalated, and both men resorted to using unparliamentary language. As tempers flared, Ramesh physically attacked Trimurtulu, who responded in kind.
A video of the incident was also tweeted by ANI on February 29, 2016. Multiple other regional media organisations also reported the incident at the time.
It is hence evident that the video in question is years old and does not show TDP and JSP members clashing with each other.
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