Mahayuti has achieved a big victory in the Maharashtra assembly elections. Mahayuti has won 230 out of 288 seats. BJP won 132 seats, Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) 57 and NCP (Ajit Pawar) 41 seats. At the same time, the Congress-led Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) ended up with 46 seats.
A video is being shared on social media after the assembly election results. In the video, a large crowd of people are protesting by sitting on the road. In the video, the crowd can be heard shouting slogans like remove EVMs, bring ballot paper.
It is being claimed that this video is from Maharashtra. Where after the results of assembly elections, masses of people have taken to the streets and are strongly protesting against EVMs. Many verified and non-verified users are sharing this video on X.
- A verified user named AK Stalin shared the video and wrote – Looking at the crowd, it seems that the public will not allow the new government formed by theft in Maharashtra. This crowd against EVM is very heavy. (archive)
More than 80 thousand people have seen the post shared by the user so far. At the same time more than 6 thousand people have liked it and more than 1 thousand people have retweeted it.
- Another verified user named Shyam Yadav also shared the video with the same claim and caption.
- Another verified user wrote – Anger is rising across the country against EVMs, people are alleging vote theft.
- Another user wrote – In many villages of Maharashtra, people have taken to the streets against the Election Commission, if EVMs are not stopped, this situation may happen in the whole country.
The truth behind the viral video… To find out the truth about the viral video, we did a key frame reverse search on Google. On searching we found this video in a post shared by an X user named Archana Chaubey. Link to the post…
A screenshot of a user's shared post.
An X user named Archana Chaube shared the video and wrote- Remove EVM, bring ballot paper. The thing to note is that the user posted this 1 February 2024 was shared on At the same time, assembly elections in Maharashtra were held on 20 November and the results were declared on 23 November.
During investigation we also found some media reports related to this video. This video of January 31 is of Delhi's Jantar-Mantar. Where people of Bharat Mukti Morcha protested against EVMs outside Election Commission office and demanded to conduct elections with ballot papers. News link…
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It is clear that The claim made about viral videos on social media is completely false. This video is not after Maharashtra assembly election results.
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