On April 10, 2021, BJP MP Locket Chatterjee’s car was attacked at polling booth No 66 in West Bengal Hooghly district by some local people who BJP alleged to be supporters of Trinamool Congress. She went there to take a tour of the polling booths, where voting for the fourth phase of the Assembly elections was being conducted. In context to the incident, the opposition started sharing a video in which a window of Locket Chatterjee’s car was smashed and claimed that the window was broken from inside.
Netizens have been sharing on their facebook and twitter handles the viral video with a caption, “BJP MP EXPOSED! MP #LocketChatterjee is going around and saying her convoy was attacked. Just see the video, it can be clearly seen that car’s window is being broken from inside. This was shown live in Bhavan’s PC. Now decide yourself! #WestBengalPolls”.
The viral clip shows security personnel jostling with the angry crowd keeping them away from the car; Chatterjee is sitting in as the window of the car can be seen shattering into pieces. A 50 seconds clip was shared by Twitter user Ravi Nair with the caption, “Who broke the window of BJP leader Locket Chatterjee’s car from inside?” Another 14 seconds clip from a different angle was tweeted by Umashankar Singh, senior editor, political and foreign affairs at NDTV with the caption which when translated reads, “Magic! People’s protest from outside, ‘public place’s’ glass broken from inside! This is Bengal and the BJP leader’s car.” In another tweet, Singh stated claiming, “Slow motion using iMovie App clears the picture further. No stone seems to be seen from outside. The mirror is ambushed from the inside. Pieces of glass emerge on the outside.”
A CNN journalist, Payal Mehta, shared a clearer video with a caption, “Video released by @me_locket of how she was hounded.” In this video, one can see a stone coming from the right side and falling on the window of the car. Locket Chatterjee, in a phone call to an Election Official, said, “They’ve broken my car… am at booth No 66. They grabbed my jacket and attacked my car… I’ve also been hurt by pieces of glass.”
Hence, the claim that the window was broken from inside is fake.
