Fact Check: Nitish Kumar calling BJP ‘Badka Jhoota Party’! Video going viral. Know the truth

A video of Nitish Kumar is going viral on the internet  in which he is calling BJP ‘Badka Jhoota Party.’ Further, sharing the video a Facebook user Rajshree yadav prasnal, wrote the caption, “BJP MLA Haribhushan ji, know what is the meaning of your party “B.J.P”..that too from your colleague friend.”

(“बीजेपी विधायक हरिभूषण जी, जानिए आपके पार्टी “B.J.P” का मतलब क्या होता है..वो भी अपने सहयोगी मित्र से”)

Similarly, many other users have shared this video.

Factcheck

On keyword search, we found the same video on YouTube. The title of the video is , “Ahead of Bihar election, Nitish Kumar’s old video calling BJP ‘Badka Jhoota Party’ goes viral.” It is noteworthy that the video was uploaded on October 19, 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-YY2SEQi3M

Hence, the video is old

Conclusion

Therefore, from our fact check analysis it is clear the  users are sharing an old video of Nitish Kumar. Hence, the claim of the users are misleading

DFRAC Editor

Digital Forensics, Research and Analytics Centre (DFRAC) is a non-partisan and independent media organisation which focuses on fact-checking and identifying hate speech. With the popularisation of the internet came the challenge of information overload and often times, our feeds are overpopulated with conflicting, incendiary and false information which is increasingly becoming difficult to ignore and not believe in

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