A video showing Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi wing vice president Kapil Mishra making communal remarks is viral on social media. In the 37-second long video, widely circulated a day before the Delhi election, Mishra can be heard asking a crowd of people, “Toh phir inn Musalmaano ko chhod doge tum?” (“So, will you let off these Muslims then?”). The listeners reply in unison that they won’t.
Mishra can also be heard telling these people that the BJP is winning seats where Muslims are contesting. He is referring to the Delhi polls taking place on February 5.
He further claims that Muslim votes are getting split among three parties. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) led by Asaduddin Owaisi and the Congress party are cutting into the ruling Aam Aadmi Party’s vote share thus giving the BJP an edge. Towards the end of the video, Mishra rouses the audience by declaring that once Muslim votes are divided, the BJP’s victory will be guaranteed. “So, will you let off these Muslims then?… No, right? We must hoist the saffron flag in every corner of the city,” he says in Hindi.
X user @MeMdHaider, whose bio claims he is AAP’s zonal president posted the video, alleging that Kapil Mishra was promoting communal disharmony between Hindus and Muslims. (Archive)
कपिल मिश्रा बोल रहा है की दिल्ली में अगर भाजपा की सरकार बनी तो हिन्दू-मुस्लिम भाइयों से आपस में लड़ाकर यह फ़िर से दंगे करायेगा।
मेरी दिल्ली के सभी भाइयों से अपील है की एक भी वोट बटने ना दे, सोच समझकर वोट दे।
दिल्ली में भाजपा और नफ़रत को सिर्फ़ @ArvindKejriwal जी ही हरा सकते है। pic.twitter.com/6QYeB7DP2B
— Er. Md. Haider
। محمد حیدر । मोo हैदर (@MeMdHaider) February 4, 2025
Facebook user Shakeelur Rahman also shared the video, which at the time of this article being written was viewed over 3,000 times.
Posted by Shakeelur Rahman on Tuesday 4 February 2025
Alt News received several requests on its WhatsApp Helpline (+917600011160) to authenticate the footage.
Fact Check
To begin with, we observed that Kapil Mishra’s voice and the ambient sound in the viral video appeared artificial. Upon closer examination, we noticed that the audio did not match Mishra’s lip movements either. This is clear towards the end of the viral clip, where he says, “… bhagwa lehraoge ki nahi….”
Next, we were able to find the full video from which the viral clip was extracted by going through the past live videos uploaded on Kapil Mishra’s official Facebook page. We found that the viral footage is part of a longer livestream uploaded on January 23.
The clipped bit begins at the 8:59-minute mark of this stream and goes on till 9:36 minutes. This bit does not show him making any such remarks as seen in the viral video. Mishra can be heard asking supporters rhetorically whether AAP ministers were of any help during communal disturbances in the area five years ago.
Around the 8:38-minute timestamp, Mishra requests for the audience’s votes , saying, “Yaad rakhna… jab hamaare ghari me aag lagaane ke liye bheed aayi thi, toh sadkon pe koi nahi aaya tha sirf Kapil Mishra nikla tha.” (Remember when they gave to torch your homes, nobody except Kapil Mishra went out on the streets.) He further goes on to say that he was neither a legislator nor had a senior post in the BJP at the time. “These people (AAP leaders) are now coming and telling you vote for AAP as locals, but did anyone come during that time?” he says, to which the crowd replies unitedly, “No”. The audience replying in negative is very clearly visible in the viral video.
Thus the viral video is morphed. Fake audio mimicking Mishra’s voice has been overlaid in an unrelated video to give the false impression that he made remarks on Muslim votes getting split. In reality, the viral clip is a small part of Mishra’s speech canvassing votes for the BJP and targeting AAP for doing nothing during the 2020 Northeast Delhi communal violence. Alt News was not able to conclusively determine whether the audio was AI-generated.
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This content originally appeared on Alt News and was authored by Prantik Ali.
Prantik Ali | Radio Free (2025-02-05T07:18:37+00:00) Video showing BJP’s Kapil Mishra making communal remarks is doctored, uses fake audio. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2025/02/05/video-showing-bjps-kapil-mishra-making-communal-remarks-is-doctored-uses-fake-audio/
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