Truth behind poster, BJP members are not allowed inside

News Claim: A photograph of a board on the road is going viral on social media. It is written on this board that it is strictly forbidden for BJP people to come to Jagdishpur, a village in Bhojpur. 

Viral News Today:  .

बोर्ड पर लिखा है, "ग्राम उगना जगदीशपुर (भोजपुर) अगर बीजेपी वाले आएंगे तो टांग तोड़ दी जायेगी! BJP वालो का आना इस गांव में सख्त मना है." फेसबुक पर ये तस्वीर कई लोग पोस्ट कर चुके हैं. वायरल पोस्ट का आर्काइव यहां देखा जा सकता है.

News Verification: Ayupp Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that the viral picture is fake. This picture is from October 2018 when this board was put up against BJP and MP Mahesh Sharma in a village of Gautam Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. Although, it was actually written on this board that BJP people are not allowed to come to the village, but the thing that breaks the legs has been added to it with the help of editing software.

According to the report of "The Indian Express", the board was put up outside the village when the local administration and employees of a real estate group allegedly destroyed standing crops of farmers. The villagers said that they were beaten up by the police when they tried to them from ruining the crop.

The police had also arrested some villagers for disturbing law and order. Actually, this dispute between the farmers and the real estate group was going on for a long time. Real Estate Group had bought this village land in the year 2005-06. But according to the villagers, the company did not start work on the land and hence the farmers kept on cultivating it. One day the officials came and asked the villagers to vacate the land without any notice, as per the villagers the officials started digging over the land and destroyed lakhs of crops in value.

To resolve the dispute, the villagers called up MP Mahesh Sharma but he did not get help. Frustrated and angry with this, the villagers put up this board. Mahesh Sharma had adopted this village under the "Sansad Adarsh ​​Gram Yojana". In this case, Mahesh Sharma said that the board was put up by only one person who was politically motivated. The Samajwadi Party leader was also taken into custody in the case.

This picture of Kachaida Warsabad has been edited and shared before. The fake picture makers change the name of the village or the name of the party on the board, which spreads confusion.

 

News verdict:  false

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