Old and unrelated video goes viral linking to Maulana Sajid Rashidi’s remarks on MP Dimple Yadav

This video is from a Samajwadi Party meeting held in Bulandshahr in May 2025. It is unrelated to Maulana Sajid Rashidi.

All India Imam Association President Maulana Sajid Rashidi, who made a controversial statement about the attire of UP’s Mainpuri MP Dimple Yadav, was assaulted on the road. Samajwadi Party workers attacked him and slapped him on the face on a public road in Noida after a news channel’s debate show.

Maulana Sajid Rashidi made derogatory comment against Dimple Yadav, wife of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, for visiting a mosque near the Parliament without covering her head. Linking to this, social media users are sharing a video and claiming that now Samajwadi Party supporters have beaten up another Maulana.

Let’s check the truth

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Fact Check- 

We started our investigation with a reverse image search with the key frames of the video and the results led us to the same video uploaded by several social media accounts in May 2025 even before this incident involving Maulana Sajid Rashidi. According to the information given here, “In the Samajwadi Party meeting in Bulandshahr Syana, there was abuse and fighting between two factions of SP.”

Using these hints, we conducted further searches and found several news reports regarding this incident from May 2025. The report states, a clash broke out during a booth-level Samajwadi Party meeting in Syana tehsil of Bulandshahr, resulting in a physical altercation between two groups. 

Moving forward, we found that the same video was uploaded on NDTV’s YouTube channel on 30 May, 2025. According to the information, “There was a lot of uproar during the Samajwadi Party meeting in Bulandshahr, UP. SP leaders clashed among themselves in the meeting and Dalit workers were beaten up, they were chased and beaten. SP’s assembly in-charge Prempal Yadav was also present in this meeting.”

Meanwhile, we found several videos showing Maulana Sajid Rashidi being slapped on the premises of a news media studio, but these videos are unrelated to the viral video from the Samajwadi Party meeting in Bulandshahr. Both are different incidents and not related.

So, we can understand that an old video from a Samajwadi Party meeting is falsely shared linking to the attack on Maulana Sajid Rashidi by Samajwadi Party workers over remarks about Dimple Yadav.

Conclusion- 

Fact Crescendo found the claim made along with the viral image to be Misleading. This video is from a Samajwadi Party meeting held in Bulandshahr in May 2025. It is unrelated to Maulana Sajid Rashidi.