The results of the Bihar Assembly elections were declared on 14 November 2025. In this election, the BJP-led NDA alliance secured 202 of the 243 seats. Following the results, opposition parties raised concerns about the Election Commission’s impartiality, alleging that it favoured the BJP and enabled vote theft (here and here).
Amid these allegations, a video (here, here and here) is viral on social media showing a large crowd marching through the streets, claimed to be a protest by Bihar voters accusing the ruling party of vote theft. Let’s find out the truth behind this video.
Claim: The viral video shows voters in Bihar protesting against vote theft after the 2025 Assembly election results.
Fact: The video is not from Bihar. It shows a rally organised by AAP MLA Chaitar Vasava in Netrang, Gujarat, on 15 November 2025 to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Birsa Munda. A location match using Google Street View further confirms that the visuals are from Netrang, not Bihar. Hence the claim is FALSE.
To verify this claim, we first conducted a keyword search on Google to check whether any large-scale protests took place in Bihar after the Election Commission announced the 2025 results. As of 19 November 2025, no credible news reports mentioned any such protest taking place in the state.
To investigate further, we performed a reverse image search using keyframes from the viral video. This led us to the same visuals posted by an Instagram account named chaitarvasava.army on 15 November 2025. The caption of that post clearly stated that the video is from Netrang, Gujarat.
To learn more about the rally, we conducted a keyword search using relevant terms. We found that Chaitar Vasava is an Aam Aadmi Party MLA from the Dediapada constituency in Gujarat, and Netrang is a small town in Bharuch district, located next to Dediapada. According to news reports (here, here and here), Chaitar Vasava organised a massive rally in Netrang on 15 November 2025 to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Birsa Munda.
To confirm the location, we examined the viral video and identified the spot as Gram Panchayat Road in Netrang, Gujarat. A side-by-side comparison of the viral footage with Google Street View, along with other supporting evidence, clearly establishes that the video was filmed in Gujarat, not in Bihar.
To sum up, a video from a rally in Netrang, Gujarat, is being falsely shared as a protest rally against alleged vote theft during the Bihar elections.
