The video was shared in a tweet on January 6 by Wasim Khan, one of the leaders of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The video, which has more than 340,000 views, appears to show the leader of the opposition Congress party Rahul Gandhi in the front row of a theatre watching a singer perform a sexually explicit song from the 2017 Bhojpuri-language film "Satya".
The sarcastic Hindi-language tweet, which includes an excerpt of the lyrics, reads: "The gentleman listening to the civilized song, 'first he lifted my veil and then made me lie on his belly'."
Screenshot of the misleading tweet, taken January 12, 2023.
“The gentleman" is a reference to Gandhi, who attended a concert at the Albert Hall in the western city of Jaipur on December 16 to mark 100 days of his Unite India March (Bharat Jodo Yatra).
Gandhi said his pan-India march, which started in September, aimed to highlight rampant unemployment, soaring inflation and growing polarisation between majority Hindus and religious minorities such as Muslims.
The same video was shared in similar posts on Facebook here and here.
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