After the declaration of results of the state assembly election in West Bengal, news of violence from various parts of the state began to be reported.<\/p>\n
The re-elected Trinamool Congress government acknowledged that 16 people had died in the post-poll violence. However, other parties, including the BJP, have alleged that the numbers are higher and that at least 20 people have died.<\/p>\n
According to the families of the deceased, nine from BJP and eight from the TMC have claimed to have lost kin in the violence. A member of the CPI(M) and a supporter of the Indian Secular Front have also been reportedly dead.<\/p>\n
As the violence erupted, images and videos began to be circulated on social media platforms, depicting the violence in West Bengal.Many of these visuals were shared by leaders of the BJP.<\/p>\n
However, AltNews, an independent fact-checking website, has debunked several of these images and videos as fake.<\/p>\n
In this interview with Himadri Ghosh, a journalist based in West Bengal, The Wires Seraj Ali discusses the repeated instances of post-poll violence in the state, the fake news ecosystem that surrounds such violence, among other issues.<\/p>\n
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