By Oishani Bhattacharya

A 21-second clip showing several people throwing chairs at one another in what appears to be a large conference hall is viral on social media. Users have shared the clip claiming that it is from a BJP meeting in Tamil Nadu.

Congress MLA from Vadgam, Gujarat, Jignesh Mevani (@jigneshmevani80) shared the viral video on X (formerly Twitter) with a caption in Hindi which said, “I don’t know about crossing 400, but there definitely seem to be around 400 chairs jumping in the BJP meeting.” He later deleted the tweet.

Arun Reddy, who is the Congress national coordinator for social media, posted the above-mentioned clip on X on April 8 stating: “Not sure about 400 seats.. but definitely 400 chairs were thrown at each other during a BJP meeting in Tamil Nadu.” The tweet has received over 37,000 views and has been retweeted over 500 times. (Archive)

https://twitter.com/SpiritOfCongres/status/1777250378268254495?t=PbOQUyKXuIU26YZiZ6STrA&s=19

A premium subscribed X user, Zakir Ali Tyagi (@ZakirAliTyagi), who, according to his bio is a journalist, also shared the viral video on April 8 with a caption that stated, “The BJP, which claims to win 400 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, is currently conducting an examination of 400 chairs…” (Archive)

https://twitter.com/ZakirAliTyagi/status/1777399362848444735?t=qnwaLmCfxxzWvNv-XKeQSA&s=19

Several other users shared the viral video with the same claim.

Fact Check

On watching the video closely, we noticed a banner carrying “News18” logos at the 12-second mark.

We broke down the video into several key frames and ran a reverse image search on a few of them. This led us to a tweet by the official handle of BJP Kanchipuram (@bjp4kanchi) which contained the same viral clip. The caption in Tamil could be translated as, “On 6.4.24, at the solo debate event held in Kanchi, BJP state secretary @SuryahSG continued to give fitting replies to the false accusations of DMK. Kanchi MLA Ehilarasan was unable to answer the question of what DMK had done to Kanchipuram constituency.”

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