BJP debunks Yogi Adityanath’s ‘slip of tongue’ video ‘confusing’ Swami Vivekananda with Netaji Bose as fake, posts ‘real’ clip

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday clarified that the viral “slip of tongue” video of UP CM Yogi Adityanath confusing Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose with Swami Vivekananda is “fake” and shared the “real” clip in which the Uttar Pradesh CM is heard attributing the “Tum Mujhe Khoon Do, Main Tumhe Azadi Dunga” slogan to ‘Netaji’.

Responding to TMC MP Sagarika Ghosh’s post in which she shared the “fake video”, BJP leader Pradeep Bhandari said, “Fake news! This is the genuine video! Bengal has seen through this! Bengal will defeat this arrogance, appeasement, lawlessness, and misgovernance of ‘Tolamool’. People of Bengal will reclaim Bengali Asmita from TMC.”

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This came after Ghosh shared the purported video of Adityanath attributing the famous slogan to Swami Vivekananda.

“The utter and shameful illiteracy of the @BJP4India on Bengal is exposed every day again and again. No @myogiadityanath Ji, it was NOT Swami Vivekananda but Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose who uttered the iconic slogan, ‘Give me blood, I promise freedom.’ Go home @BJP4India. Don’t even try in Bengal,” she wrote.

Twitter also flagged Ghosh’s posts with community notes, a feature that lets users add context, such as corrections or citations, to potentially misleading posts, images, or videos.

With elections reaching their peak, the BJP and the TMC are accusing each other of disrespecting iconic figures like Subhas Chandra Bose and Rabindranath Tagore.

Earlier, a video of Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee allegedly mixing up historical facts about Rabindranath Tagore was shared by the BJP.

In the purported clip, Banerjee claimed that Mahatma Gandhi renounced his knighthood in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. However, it was Rabindranath Tagore who returned his knighthood in 1919 as a mark of protest against the massacre.