Indian social media users claim that India’s ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has once once more decided to take help from the army to win the elections.
A video is going viral on social media, which is being shown in the Indian media without any research.
In the video, soldiers can be seen chanting to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party.
This video is being widely shared and people are commenting on it.
“Army personnel in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh lodged a complaint once morest unknown miscreants for trying to snatch voter ID cards from ordinary voters, preventing soldiers from voting and making videos defaming the Indian Army,” the tweet said. ‘.
According to the complaint, the incident took place on April 29, 2019, when a soldier of the Grenadiers Regimental Center and his spouse went to vote at booth number 146 of Swami Vivekananda Higher Secondary School in Katanga, Jabalpur.
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Times of India reported the incident and The Quint had also verified the truth of a similar viral claim at the time.
The Quint report included a statement from the Indian Army which said the soldiers ‘called the commandant while they were being videographed, who asked them not to get into a fight and to exercise their right to vote. Do and return in peace’.