Claim: Rakesh Tikait was attacked with ink and a mic during a recent 2024 press conference in Karnataka.
Fact-check: Old videos of ink attack on Rakesh Tikait and another from farmers' protest are misrepresented and shared as recent - FACTLY
Verdict: the viral videos are old and from two separate incidents. one is from january 2021 when the uttar pradesh government ordered farmers to vacate the ghazipur border, leading to a tearful response from bku spokesperson rakesh tikait. the other videos are from may 2022, when miscreants attacked tikait at a press conference, hitting him with a microphone and throwing black ink at him, causing chaos and a ruckus in the conference room in bengaluru. tikait was in bengaluru in 2022 to address allegations made by kodihalli chandrashekhar in a sting operation aired by a kannada news channel​. both incidents are from the past and are not recent. hence, the claim made in the post is misleading.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Nitish Kumar Dhonge
Date published: 2024-12-09T13:35:02