POLITICS

An old picture of West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with West Bengal’s former chief minister, Jyoti Basu, has gone viral. The viral image in sepia tones shows the two personalities greeting each other. The text accompanying the image is in Hindi and roughly translates to “Don’t you see anything strange in this picture? If you look closely then all ...

As the West Bengal Assembly election campaign is going on, some videos on social media appeared with claims that Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Saayoni Ghosh was allegedly “harassed by her own party members” in Asansol and that she was forced to run. Several media outlets such as Opindia published news claiming the same on 22 March, with a headline: “Bengal: ...