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India Today found that the video is from a 2022 bypoll campaign in Telangana.
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India Today Fact Check
This video from Telangana’s Munugode assembly constituency shows an incident that happened in November 2022.
The Karnataka assembly election is scheduled for May 10, and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is pursuing an aggressive campaign in the state. Prominent leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and BJP President JP Nadda are all campaigning. But if the Congress party is to be believed, this star-powered campaign is not working, and the people of Karnataka are aggressively demonstrating their opposition to the BJP.
On Facebook and Twitter, the official accounts of the Karnataka Congress shared a video of a mob vandalising a BJP campaign vehicle. The accompanying text in Kannada said that “not only the BJP candidates, but even seeing the BJP's campaign vehicle, people are disgusted and outraged.” The archived version of the posts can be seen here and here.
India Today, in its investigation, found that the video is neither recent nor from Karnataka.
Our Probe
A reverse search of the viral video’s keyframes led us to the same video shared by a Twitter user on November 1, 2022. As per this post, the video was from Telangana.
A further search on Facebook with the help of keywords in Telugu led us to a longer version of the video shared by a Facebook user on the same date. Per this post, the video showed an attack on the convoy of Huzurabad MLA Eetala Rajendar in the Munugode assembly constituency in the Nalgonda district of Telangana.
Taking a cue from this we searched on Twitter using relevant keywords in Telugu and English and found different videos from the same incident shared by the official Twitter accounts of BJP Telangana, Union Minister and BJP leader G Kishan Reddy and BJP leader Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy. As per these tweets, the attack happened during an election campaign ahead of the Munugode bypolls.
Several media organisations also reported the incident in 2022. As per reports, the incident allegedly started with stone-pelting at Rajender’s convoy by unidentified persons in Palivela village in Munugode. The BJP accused members of Bharat Rashtra Samithi, formerly known as Telangana Rashtra Samithi, of the attack. The BRS, on the other hand, accused the BJP of attacking its workers who were on their way to attend a roadshow of the BRS working president KT Rama Rao.
It is hence clear that the viral video is old and from Telangana. It has nothing to do with the upcoming elections in Karnataka.
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