By TNM Staff
Amid the ongoing Jharkhand elections, the second phase of which is scheduled on November 20, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has come up with hate videos targeting Muslims in the guise of campaign advertisements. This is not the first time that the right-wing party is resorting to such anti-Muslim rhetoric in its campaign videos.
During the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, there were at least three such bigoted videos put out by the BJP, depicting Muslims as ‘infiltrators’ and people who ‘snatch’ the resources of others.
In the first of the two latest videos of BJP, there are four characters, closely resembling Opposition leader and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Kalpana Soren and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav. The video begins with the characters resembling Hemant and Kalpana; the latter is shown as a materialistic person eagerly looking at ‘branded’ watches.
As a BJP political advertisement on television asks how the people of Jharkhand benefited under the JMM government, his look-alike addresses a man in the room as ‘Bengali Dhadha’, asking him to prepare falsified data for a press conference to combat the claims in the news.
The second scene goes on to show characters resembling Tejashwi Yadav, Hemant and Rahul Gandhi. The latter is shown eating jaebi and saying, “Today, my mother told me that when my grandmother was the Prime Minister, she had forces open fire at Jharkhand statehood revolutionaries and eleven Adivasis were killed. She was amazing.”
To this, the Tejashwi Yadav look-alike responds by saying, “Even in Bihar, she banned Adivasis from carrying weapons like bows and arrows. My father had said that if Jharkhand is formed, it would be on these (tribal) people’s dead bodies.”
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