Five-Year-Old Video from Indore Showing Posters ‘Humari Bhool, Kamal ka Phool’ Falsely Attributed to Surat

A video is going viral on X, showing people putting up posters with the slogan ‘Humari Bhool, Kamal ka Phool’ (Our mistake, the lotus flower) outside shops. It is being claimed that the video is from Surat, Gujarat, where the trader association, angered with the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), are putting up posters outside their shops to express regret for supporting the BJP.

The News Capsule account on X shared a video stating that in Gujarat, the traders’ association in Surat is putting up posters against the BJP, with the message ‘Humari bhool, kamal ka phool.’ (Archived link)

Gujarat: सूरत में व्यापारी संघ ने BJP के खिलाफ़ लगाए पोस्टर, लिखा "हमारी भूल कमल का फूल".#Surat #Gujarat #NewsCapsule pic.twitter.com/45xHWcKAm0

— News Capsule (@newscapsule_) October 20, 2024

Handle Sudhir INC wrote, “Posters have started to be put up in Gujarat Surat: Humari bhool, kamal ka phool.” (Archived link)

गुजरात सूरत में पोस्टर लगने शुरू हो गए हैं👆 *कमल का फूल हमारी भूल👆🤔* pic.twitter.com/ADxpQWKPnT

— सुधीर कोरी (@SudhirSinc) October 20, 2024

The video was also shared by several other users, including Sagar (Archived link), Gurcharan Singh (Archived link), and Hansraj Meena (Archived link).

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Fact Check

To verify the viral video, we ran a keyword search on Google. The search led us to a report by One India, published on July 31, 2019. In the report, we spotted the same keyframe that is visible in the viral video on X. Both have ‘Vyapari Sangh, Residents Association’ written on them.

According to the report, the incident is five years old. It is from Indore, Madhya Pradesh where traders put up posters with the slogan ‘Kamal Ka Phool, Hamari Bhool’ (The lotus flower, our mistake) outside their shops. Under the Smart City Project in Indore, the road was to be widened to 60 feet, which would result in the demolition of many small shops and houses.

The traders and residents met with Municipal Commissioner Ashish Singh but returned without reaching any decision. In protest, the traders closed the market for three days. After three days, they reopened their shops but hung banners outside them that read ‘Kamal Ka Phool, Humari Bhool’ (The lotus flower, our mistake). The traders complained that due to the road widening, 15,000 people would face a livelihood crisis.

In conclusion, the video showing traders putting up posters to express their resentment against the BJP is five years old and from Indore. The displeasure was due to the road widening project, which would have resulted in the demolition of many shops and houses.

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