A video showing a group of people—mostly women—participating in a protest is being shared and portrayed as it is from an Indian state, specifically West Bengal. In reality, the video is from Dhaka, Bangladesh, where women were protesting for gender-based legal reforms.
The propagandist account @KreatelyMedia posted this video using the word ‘State,’ which indicates that they are referring to West Bengal.
Guess the state pic.twitter.com/lfxkBTYTZQ
— Kreately.in (@KreatelyMedia) May 24, 2025
Propagandist @SaffronSunanda post this video with the claim:
Nationalist Bengali girls like me get stereotyped and dragged nonstop Because of these loud mouthed communist girls/women gang rewriting our image one cringe protest at a time. I am ashamed of that !! But I am a proud Bengali Hindu girl.
Another Propagandist @MithilaWaala, posted the same video with a similar narrative:
Several Influencer accounts, including @drthakker9, and @satyaagrahindia, have shared this video, using it to stir political and communal sentiments within India.
Truth: Viral Women’s Rally Footage is of Bangladesh
As the misleading claim continued to gain traction across social media, the D-Intent Data team initiated the investigation. Through reverse image searches, frame-by-frame video analysis, and cross-referencing with credible international news reports, including coverage by Channel News Asia, confirmed that the footage actually depicts a peaceful protest held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Around 3,000 women gathered to demand justice and gender-based legal reforms, calling on the interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to support the Women’s Affairs Reform Commission. The rally was rooted in social reform, not political unrest, and had no connection to India. Despite this, the video was deliberately stripped of its original context and falsely labeled to provoke communal tensions and misinformation within Indian online spaces.
The video was falsely labeled and stripped of all context to create communal discontent within Indian social media discourse.
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— D-Intent Data (@dintentdata) May 25, 2025
ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: A video showing a group of people (mostly women) participating in a protest is being shared and portrayed as it is from an Indian state, specifically West Bengal. However, the video is actually from Bangladesh, (1/3) pic.twitter.com/u0Vp1AbZWO
Intent:
Influencers are circulating videos from Bangladesh without providing the actual information to set the narrative in India.
Conclusion:
Claim: A viral video shows women protesting in West Bengal, India.
Fact: The video is actually from a women’s rights protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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