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What’s going viral A video is going viral on social media. It can be seen in the video that some people took a man hostage by sitting on a chair in filled water on the road. It is being claimed that the person held hostage by the people is a councillor. After winning the election, he never went to his area. When elections came to ask for votes, the public took them hostage.
And what is the truth?
- To find out the veracity of the video going viral, we reverse-searched its keyframes on Google with the help of fact check tool Invid. In the search result, we found this video with information in a post of News 24.
- News 24 shared this video on 21 November 2020. The post was accompanied by a video that read – In Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Modi, the citizens, troubled by the smelly sewer overflow, took the councilor hostage.
- The full news related to this matter, 2 years ago, Bhaskar also posted on his website. publish Had it.
- This case of 20 November 2020 is of Baluabir area of Varanasi. People were upset due to the dirty water filling of the sewer on the road. Angered by this, people tied the hands and feet of local councilor Tufail Ansari and kept him sitting in dirty water for two hours.
- In this matter, the local people had told that we are troubled for many months. We had elected the councilor only on the issue of sewer, water, road. In this case no action was taken even after complaining several times, so this step had to be taken.
- It is clear that the claim being made on social media with the viral video is false. This video is not from now but 2 years old. At the same time, the councilor of Baluabir area of Varanasi was held hostage for not solving the problem of filling dirty water.
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