Old video of Rajasthan citizens pledging to boycott Congress party is being linked to Karauli violence - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
April 14, 2022
A video is being shared on social media claiming it as visuals of Rajasthan citizens pledging not to vote for the Congress Party amid recent Karauli violence. In the wake of the recent communal violence at Rajasthan’s Karauli, this video is being widely shared on social media. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Recent video of Rajasthan citizens pledging to boycott Congress party amid communal violence in Karauli.
Fact: The video shared in the post shows old visuals from a demonstration organised by the Rajasthan Unemployed Unified Federation in November 2020. As part of the demonstration, the unemployed youth present in the meeting took an oath not to vote for Congress Party in the upcoming Zilla Parishad, Panchayat Samiti and Vidhan Sabha by-elections during that period. The video shared in the post is old and has nothing to do with the recent communal violence in Karauli. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
On reverse image search of the screenshots in the video, videos with similar visuals are found on social media from November 2020. They can be seen here and here. These social media users mentioned it as visuals of unemployed youth in Rajasthan taking an oath not to vote for the Congress Party in elections. On 17 November 2020, the ‘National Dunia’ news website published an article sharing a photo from the same meeting. This article reported that the Rajasthan Unemployed Unified Federation had organised a demonstration at Sikar Ramlila Maidan and made all the unemployed youth present at the meeting take oath to boycott the Congress party in all the upcoming elections.
Reporting the details of the meeting, a few news websites published articles in November 2020. They can be seen here and here. According to these articles, on 17 November 2020, the Rajasthan Unemployed Unified Federation organised a demonstration demanding the Rajasthan state government to complete the pending recruitment process and fulfill all other demands of the unemployed youth in the state. During the meeting, the Rajasthan Unemployed Unified Federation president Upen Yadav reportedly made all the unemployed youth present in the meeting take a pledge to boycott the Congress party in all upcoming Zilla Parishad, Panchayat Samiti, and Vidhan Sabha by-elections. From all these pieces of evidence, it can be concluded that the video shared in the post is old and not related to the recent communal violence in Rajasthan’s Karauli.
To sum it up, an old video of Rajasthan citizens pledging to boycott the Congress party is being linked to Karauli violence.