A major row erupted after a viral video showed a man using indecent language for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his late mother at the Opposition bloc’s Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar’s Darbhanga on August 27, 2025. The accused, Mohammad Rizvi, a resident of Singhwara locality in Darbhanga, was arrested by the Bihar police on August 29.
However, soon after this, several social media users claimed that the person arrested was, in fact, affiliated with the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Showing a picture of Rizvi after his arrest and another one, allegedly of him, in the presence of BJP leaders, users suggested that the BJP made up the entire fiasco.
X user @DrNimoYadav shared the images with the claims on August 29. The post received over 93,000 views before it was deleted. (Archive)
Another user, @MahuaMoitraFans, also posted the images with the claims but deleted it later. (Archive)
Other X users, such as @Vtxt21, @profAIPC and @congressispeaks, also amplified the claim. (Archived links: 1, 2, 3)
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At a glance, it wasn’t clear that the persons in the images (wearing a BJP sash and wearing a white vest after being arrested) were identical or the same. To be sure, we ran a reverse image search on the picture, allegedly of the accused Mohammad Rizvi with BJP members. This led us to a Facebook post by a user named Nek Mohammad Rizvi, shared on July 18.
We checked the profile and found that the person was a BJP worker from Kotma, Madhya Pradesh. On August 29, he posted a clarification that false rumours were being spread about him. He also highlighted the users who had spread these falsehoods.
In a video statement later, he alleged that misinformation was being shared to malign him and the BJP using images from his social media profile.
The same day, Darbhanga Police also shared that a 20-year-old Bihar youth, Mohammad Rizvi, alias Raja was arrested and charged under sections 196, 296, 152, 353(2), 356(1), 356(2), 3(5) of the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita and section 67 of the IT Act.
माननीय प्रधानमंत्री भारत के खिलाफ आपत्तिजनक शब्दों का प्रयोग करने के मामले में दरभंगा पुलिस के द्वारा एक अभियुक्त को किया गया गिरफ्तार …….
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. #HainTaiyarHum #BiharPolice #Bihar pic.twitter.com/RrMs6tWI5W— Darbhanga Police (@DarbhangaPolice) August 29, 2025
Thus, claims alleging that a man arrested from Darbhanga for using abusive language towards PM Modi during an Opposition rally is from the BJP are false and baseless. Social media users misidentified and misled others by using the image of a BJP member from Kotwa, MP, and linking it to the accused.
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This content originally appeared on Alt News and was authored by Prantik Ali.