DigitEye India Fact Checkers
An emotional video of Kalyan Banerjee, the candidate of Trinamool Congress contesting from the Sreerampore Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal, is going viral on social media platforms.
Seeing the fight of #CPIM candidate @DharDipsita in Srirampur, the condition of #BJP candidate Kabir Shankar Bose’s former father-in-law, three-time MP & this year’s #TMC candidate Kalyan Banerjee! pic.twitter.com/R6tkTpb5Xr
— Vijay (বিজয়) (@Comrade__Vijay) May 8, 2024
The claim reads: “Seeing the fight of #CPIM candidate @DharDipsita in Sreerampore, the condition of #BJP candidate Kabir Shankar Bose’s former father-in-law, three-time MP & this year’s #TMC candidate Kalyan Banerjee!” (sic).
FACT-CHECK
Digiteye India first checked on social media for a match to key frames of the video. The results showed that the video clip was an old one from 2021 when TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee moved into tears in front of the Maa Durga idol on the auspicious day of Navami. It was published on the YouTube channel of ETV Bharat West Bengal, on Oct 15, 2021.
Further search on Google News has revealed that the incident was telecast by another TV news channel TV9 Bangla. Hence, the claim is totally false.
Claim: TMC candidate Kalyan Banerjee is crying after seeing the fight of CPI(M) candidate Dhar Dipsita in Sreerampore, West Bengal.
Conclusion: The claim is false. An old, unrelated video of Kalyan Banerjee, who moved into tears in front of the Maa Durga idol on the auspicious day of Navami in 2021, was used to claim that he was in tears facing tough fight in Lok Sabha Election 2024.
Rating: Misrepresentation — 
