Video of BJP Lawmakers thrashing each other falsely shared as scuffle between AAP MP Sanjay Singh and his Party’s MLA - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
June 18, 2021
A video accompanying a post is being widely shared on social media claiming that Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh was beating his own party’s MLA during a Party meeting with a shoe and that later the MLA also retaliated and hit him back. Let us fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video of AAP MP Sanjay Singh beating his party’s MLA at a meeting.
Fact: The men exchanging blows in the video belong to Uttar Pradesh BJP unit. BJP MP Sharad Tripathi had assaulted BJP MLA Rakesh and they subsequently exchanged blows following an argument over placement of names on a foundation stone of a project. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
When reverse image search of the screenshots of the video is done, the same video was found on the YouTube channel of ‘NDTV’. As per this video uploaded on 06 March 2019, former BJP Lok Sabha MP Sharad Tripathi who represented Uttar Pradesh’s Sant Kabir Nagar between 2014-2019 had assaulted BJP MLA Rakesh Singh and both of them exchanged blows following an argument over placement of names on a foundation stone of a project. News articles regarding the incident can be seen here, here, and here.
A screengrab of the video shows that there is a poster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath. So, the men involved in the scuffle in the video are the lawmakers from the Uttar Pradesh BJP unit and not of Aam Aadmi Party.
To sum it up, video of BJP Lawmakers thrashing each other falsely shared as scuffle between AAP MP Sanjay Singh and his Party’s MLA.