A video claiming that women in Bihar recently assaulted BJP workers who were allegedly distributing vermilion is doing the rounds on social media. The clip, which has gained traction alongside captions like “BJP Bhagao, Desh Bachao,” is claimed as an incident which took place in May 2025.
The video is shared on Facebook with a caption: बिहार में भाजपा के पदाधिकारी सिंदूर बांट रहे थे तो बिहार की महिलाओं ने जमकर की ठुकाई भाजपा भगाओ देश बचाओ (English version: BJP officials were distributing vermilion in Bihar, so women of Bihar beat them up. Get rid of BJP, save the country.)
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NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim and found it to be MISLEADING.
A Reverse Image Search of the video’s keyframes traced it back to a post on October 25, 2020, by a Twitter account named Srinivas BV. The same video was also found on Facebook page of one Ramkrishna Mishra, posted on October 24, 2020. In that post, the incident was described as a protest by women in Muzaffarpur’s Kudhani constituency, targeting BJP MLA Kedar Prasad Gupta. As per its caption, women confronted Gupta’s campaign vehicle, tore off its posters, and forced it to leave the area.
Another report from the YouTube channel, Headlines Bihar, dated October 24, 2020, features a footage that matches the viral video. Its caption also confirms that the event took place during the Bihar Assembly elections, and involved public outrage over what was perceived as the MLA’s neglect of...
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