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An old video of protest-related clashes from Varanasi is being shared as a communal incident from West Bengal ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections

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Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, scheduled to be held in two phases on 23 and 29 April 2026 for the 294-member Legislative Assembly, a video is being shared on social media (here, here, here) showing a group of people chasing and beating a man with sticks. It is being claimed that the man being beaten up is Nazrul Islam, a TMC worker who threatened Hindus in Murshidabad over voting, and was attacked by Hindu men. The Archived post ca…

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factly.in broke the news in on Tuesday, April 7, 2026.
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