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Generalelectionswill be held in India between 19 April,2024, and 1 June,2024,to elect 543 members of the 18thLok Sabha.In the run up to the polls, images and videos related to the elections have been doing the rounds on social media..
Amid this, an image showing several people holding a banner with words NO VOTE TO BJP at a rally is going viral with the claim that it shows a protest against the BJP in Tamil Nadu before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections...
The results led us to the same image uploaded on stock image websiteAlamywith the caption: People shout slogan, carry placards, banners during anti RSS-BJP rally before election in Kolkata, India, 10 March, 2021...
In this sequence, we searched for newsrelated to No Vote to BJP campaign and found that a group of political activists had set up this platform in West Bengal.According to news reports in March 2021, a platform named Bengal Against Fascist RSS-BJP had organised a No vote for BJP campaign..
Fact Crescendo found the claim made along with the viral image to beMisleading.The image shows an anti-BJP campaign that was carried out ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections in 2021..
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