Fact Check: SP members thrashed Dalit man during meet? Nope, this claim is bogus
A Facebook user wrote, 'Yadavs have beaten a Dalit leader because he sat on a sofa. Is this the Samajwadi Party's PDA? Imagine, if this is the status of a Dalit leader in the party, how much injustice must the ordinary Dalit public face under the Samajwadi Party's government?' Its archive can be viewed here.India Today Fact Check found that the video has nothing to do with the Samajwadi Party. This is a recent video from Maharashtra's Latur, and shows a Maratha activist being thrashed by local Nationalist Congress Party workers. There was no caste angle to the incident.Our ProbeUsing a reverse image search, we found a Times of India report from July 21, which contained a screenshot of the viral video. It said that members of a Maratha outfit called Chhava Sanghatna were protesting at a press meeting by Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar) leader Sunil Tatkare in Maharashtra's Latur. The organisation demanded the resignation of Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Manikrao Kokate for allegedly playing games on his phone during an Assembly session.During the protest, members of Chhava Sanghatna threw playing cards at Sunil Tatkare and shouted slogans against Kokate. This sparked chaos at the meeting as local NCP activists allegedly assaulted some members of the Maratha organisation in the nearby room.According to an India Today report, the state president of Chhava Sanghatna, Vijaykumar Ghadge, was allegedly beaten up in full view of the police, which was even captured on camera. A Lokmat Times report also said the same.We reached out to Vijaykumar Ghadge regarding the claim. He confirmed to India Today Fact Check that neither were the people assaulting him Samajwadi Party workers, nor was he a Dalit. Ghadge belongs to the upper-caste Maratha community. He also said that there were OBC members in his group who were also assaulted during the incident.India Today's Maharashtra correspondent, Aniket Jadhav, also confirmed that there was no caste angle to the case.Thus, it's clear that the viral claim is completely false.- Ends
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