On 4th April, the Parliament passed the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025. Waqf protests in some parts of West Bengal have turned violent, with the situation getting worse in the Murshidabad district. Amidst these reports of violence, a video of Member of Lok Sabha and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra protesting against the Bill is being shared widely on social media platforms.
During the investigation, Lighthouse Journalism found the video to be old and is being shared with misleading claims.
Claim:
X user Anjum Nisha shared the video with a misleading claim on her profile.
Other users are also sharing the video with a similar claim.
Investigation:
We started the investigation of the video by uploading the video in the InVid tool and then running a reverse image search on the keyframes of the video.
We found a similar video posted on Congress Kerala’s X profile. The video was shared on August 5, 2022.
We found a news report about the same on the website of The Week.
The report was published on August 5, 2022. It said: Amid high drama, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was detained by the police on Friday after she staged a sit-in protest outside the AICC headquarters as part of the party’s nationwide stir against price rise, the GST hike on essential items and unemployment.
We also found several videos of the incident shared on media organisations’ YouTube channels.
Conclusion: A 2022 video of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra staging a protest over inflation is now being shared as recent, linking it to Waqf protests. The viral claim is misleading.
