Amit Shah’s allegations and the claims raised in the viral social media post, that were shared by Amit Malviya and Swapan Dasgupta, are not supported by visuals from the ground.
In the morning of May 15, BJP’s national IT cell in-charge, Amit Malviya tweeted an alleged ‘first-person’ account of a student of Vidyasagar College about the violence that erupted in the campus during BJP chief Amit Shah’s rally. “He recounts how TMC hooligans orchestrated vandalisation of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’ bust inside the college for their petty politics,” wrote Malviya.
First person account of a student from Vidyasagar College. Original post in Bangla and translation alongside. He recounts how TMC hooligans orchestrated vandalisation of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’ bust inside the college for their petty politics. #SaveBengalSaveDemocracy pic.twitter.com/OWA79RTjbw
— Amit Malviya (मोदी का परिवार) (@amitmalviya) May 15, 2019
According to the Facebook post shared by Malviya, one Biraj Narayan Roy claimed that the violence was instigated by TMCP, the student wing of the Trinamool Congress. He alleged that bricks were thrown at the rally from inside the campus and TMCP members set ablaze motorcycles and vandalised Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar’s statue. The purported student claimed that BJP workers could not have desecrated the statue as it’s located deep inside the campus. “You need to cross two gates – one iron and another wooden door – to reach the statue located completely inside the college premises. And TMCP was already inside the campus with bricks,” he wrote.
The Facebook post was earlier tweeted by MP Swapan Dasgupta and right-wing influencer Vikas Pandey.
