A video is being shared widely on social media with a claim that it shows a rally by Hindu students in Karnataka. It is being shared in the context of the hijab row in Karnataka where some Hindu students opposed hijab inside classrooms by wearing saffron shawls to the schools. Let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video shows a rally by Hindu students in Karnataka.
Fact: The video is not related to Karnataka. It is an old video from Mumbai (Maharashtra). The video shows the Maratha reservation protest at JJ Flyover in Mumbai. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
When the screenshots of the video were run through Yandex Reverse Image Search, the same video was found to be posted by many people in August 2017. A YouTube channel has posted the same video in 2017 and wrote – “Maratha andolan–JJ Flyover 4.5-5 LAKHS OF PROTESTERS MARCH TO AZAD MAIDAN, AT MUMBAI”.
The ‘Maratha Kranti Morcha’ was organised in Mumbai by the Maratha community in August 2017 demanding reservations in education and government jobs. More visuals of the Maratha protest rally on JJ Flyover (Mumbai) can be seen here, here, and here.
To sum it up, an old video from Mumbai is falsely shared as a rally by Hindu students in Karnataka.
