Videos and images of a crowd carrying sharp weapons have circulated, being portrayed as protests against the construction of a mosque in Sanjauli, Himachal Pradesh. However, these clips actually originate from Old Jubbal, depicting religious celebrations, and are unrelated to the Sanjauli mosque controversy.
Sharing the video on X (Formerly Twitter), @HindutvaTiger wrote, The Hindus of Himachal Pradesh have woken up. The Mullahs themselves are demolishing illegal mosques. People of Uttar Pradesh, when will you wake up?. The post has received more than 1 million views, 32k likes and a significant number of engagements. Later, he deleted the post.
Propaganda account @dhruvrahtee has also shared an image from the video and wrote, They are Openly threatening Minorities in Himachal Pradesh… When will Police take action against such goons?
Another propaganda account @TeamSaath also shared an image from the video and wrote, “Hindutva Terrorists on the prowl in Himachal Pradesh”. The post has received more than 600k views and a significant number of engagements.
The truth about the video, Fact Check
As soon as the posts containing the visuals and claims came to our notice. Subsequently, we conducted research and analysis of the visuals and discovered that the video was unrelated to the Sanjauli mosque controversy.
To verify the claims made by the users. We performed a reverse image search of some key frames from the viral video. This led us to a Facebook post containing the same visuals.
According to the Facebook post, these people are celebrating a religious festival at Raja Raghunath Jagada Kandari, the video was from Old Jubbal.
Therefore, it is evident from D-Intent Data’s Fact Check that the video was unrelated to the Sanjauli Mosque row and shared with misleading claims.
Intent
Propagandists are circulating videos from Himachal Pradesh with misleading claims to set their narrative based on religion.
Conclusion
Claim– The visuals show Hindus carrying weapons and protesting against the Muslim community in Himachal Pradesh.
Fact– The video shows people celebrating a religious festival called Jaagra in Old Jubbal.
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