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A video is being widely shared on social media with a claim that it shows Congress MLA Anil Upadhyay praising Modi and his initiatives. The video was originally posted in February 2020 and has been shared more than 21 thousand times.
Claim: Video of Congress MLA Anil Upadhyay praising Modi and his initiatives.
Fact: The man praising Modi in this video is Mohan Chandra Pandey. He is not a Congress MLA. In fact, there is no Congress MLA with the name Anil Upadhyay. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
At the beginning of the posted video, the man in the suit is referred to as ‘Pandey ji’. When we searched for the posted video on the internet, many similar videos with the same man were found in the search results. They have also tagged ‘@M0hanPandey’ in their posts.
On looking at the Facebook and Twitter profiles of ‘Mohan Chandra Pandey’, it can be confirmed that the man praising Modi in the video is Mohan Chandra Pandey. He has posted the same video on his profile in December 2019.
In one of his other videos, he mentions that he works as a Zonal Sales Manager – Everest Masala. He can also be seen as supporting BJP in many of his videos.
In April 2019, he has also tweeted that Republic TV has wrongly shown him as Congress leader Anil Upadhyay. He has mentioned in his tweet that he is a fan of Modi.
Also, when we searched on the ‘My Neta’ website about ‘Anil Upadhyay’, it was found that there is no Congress MLA with the name ‘Anil Upadhyay’. There are two persons with that name in the search results but neither of them belongs to INC (Indian National Congress).
Earlier, when several other videos claiming to be related to ‘BJP MLA Anil Upadhyay’ and ‘Congress MLA Anil Upadhyay’ were shared on social media, FACTLY has debunked them. The fact-check articles can be read here, here, and here.
To sum it up, the man praising Modi in the video is Mohan Chandra Pandey. He is not a Congress MLA named Anil Upadhyay.
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A video is becoming increasingly viral on social media. In the viral video, a man can be seen thrashing and abusing a policeman. While sharing this video, social media users are claiming that the person beating up the policeman is BJP MLA, Anil Upadhyay.
Facebook user Santosh Singh while sharing this video on Facebook wrote a caption in Hindi: [English Translation: Look at the audacity of BJP MLA Anil Upadhyay. When this is the condition of the police, then what will happen to the general public…
Be happy that you are living in Ram Rajya. Make this video so viral that it can be seen by the whole of India.]
It is being widely shared on Facebook and Twitter.
Claim: BJP MLA Anil Upadhyay thrashed a policeman. Fact Check: The Logical Indian Fact-Check team verified the claim and found it to be false. The viral video is 3 years old.
We first searched BJP MLA Anil Upadhyay name on google, we could not find any satisfactory result or links of any BJP MLA with the name. We checked myneta.info too but didn’t find any BJP MLA with the name.
We ran a reverse image search of different keyframes from the video using the InVid tool. It led us to a report of 20 October 2018 by Hindustan Times.
The headline of the report reads “Video shows BJP leader beating up police officer in Meerut restaurant, arrested” The report carries the stills of the viral video.
As per the report, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) corporator in Meerut thrashed a sub-inspector at a restaurant after an argument over delayed service.
An FIR was filed against the corporator, Manish Chaudhary, for beating up Mohiuddinpur police outpost in-charge Sukhpal Singh Panwar at the Black Pepper restaurant.
During our investigation, we also find a video report of India Today on the same incident. According to the report, the restaurant staff has alleged that Sub-inspector Sukhpal Sing Panwar took out his service pistol and tried to threaten them.
Later, the BJP corporator was arrested by Meerut Police. The New Indian Express and NDTV also reported this incident. We also found this video tweeted by ANI on October 20, 2018.
During our investigation, we also found a clarification post on the Facebook page of UP Police dated 10 September 2021. The post reads in English, “According to Meerut Police, this video is from the year 2018, in which charge sheet has been filed against 4 accused.