Fact Check: Elderly woman assaulted by BJP leader while distributing sarees; The viral video is not from Karnataka Fact Check Ahead of Karnataka polls video Of Woman Assaulted being circulated with a false claim Pipa News

The viral video is from Bangladesh

Elections in Karnataka (Karnataka Election 2023) is heavily campaigning and at this time the BJP (BJP) A video of a member assaulting an elderly woman has gone viral on social media. But the reality is different. In Bangladesh (Bangladesh) This is a video of a local political leader assaulting an elderly woman at a charity event. This is a video of a local leader Habibur Rahman Bitu assaulting a woman during a cloth distribution event during Ramadan 2022. BOOM has discovered that this video is from Bangladesh.

Karnataka assembly elections will be held on May 10 and the results will be announced on May 13. At a time when all the parties are campaigning loudly for the elections, the video has gone viral with such misinformation.

This is the situation before the elections in Karnataka. The real face of BJP is seen when the office bearer distributes clothes to the poor. After winning the election you will understand. Many people have shared this video on social media with Hindi writing saying that this kind of behavior towards the poor is deplorable.

Fact check

A closer look at this video shows that the ticker is written in Bangla language. It says Habibur Rahman (Bitu), Member and Secretary, No. 2 Ward, Awami League. A keyword search in Bangla on Google revealed that the video was uploaded by several YouTube users from Bangladesh in March 2023.

In the upper left corner, the logo and the text SB Satkhira Bulletin can be seen.

A search on Facebook using the keywords found this video posted on March 20, 2023 in Bangladesh’s hyper local news outlet ‘Satkhira Bulletin’.

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According to the caption, supporters of Awami League are disappointed after a person like Habibur Rahman (Bitu) was elected as Member and Secretary for Ward 2 under Satkhira Municipality ahead of the National Parliament elections. Several Awami League leaders have said that if a person like him occupies a crucial post at the grassroots level, the party will lose its credibility and become memberless.

On April 2, 2023, the Bangladeshi daily Jugantar reported the same incident quoting Nazrul Islam, the current district president of the Awami League and the president of the Zila Parishad for Satkhira. Islam said that he was aware of the viral video on social media and claimed that the video was quite old.
According to reports, the woman has been identified as Margina Begum, wife of Babul of Majitpur area of ​​Satkhira town. In the video, Habibur Rahman (Bitu) hits her three times on the head and then gives her a saree.
BOOM reported that attempts to contact Rahman regarding the video were unsuccessful.
The same viral video was reported by Dhaka Times on March 31, 2023.

According to Marjina Begum’s response to a local outlet, Satkhira Tribune, on March 31, the incident is an old one. He (Habibur Rahman) behaves very rudely with people. When he was distributing clothes, I reached out. He hit me three times. I felt discomfort so I went and sat down. Then he gave me a saree. He said that I could not say anything.

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