Old BNP torch procession video circulated as strike march, verification exposes the misinformation

The banned organisation Chhatra League has called a nationwide general strike for 10 November. Around this programme, a video is circulating on social media claiming that Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League leaders and activists held a torch procession on the streets of Dhaka in support of the strike.

A review of the comments on the circulating video shows that most users believed the claim to be true. Most of them reacted to the video as if it showed support for the strike called by Chhatra League.

Observing the circulated video, torch-bearing marchers can be seen chanting various slogans, including “Legechhe re legechhe, rokto agun legechhe” and “Ei kono neta achhe, sei neta Yasin bhai”.

A reverse image search on a few key frames of the video found the same video on a Facebook profile named “Homaun Kabir”. The video, published on 11 November last year, was captioned: “Torch procession demanding Haji Yasin be declared the party candidate...”

The scenes in the original video match the scenes in the circulating video. The same kind of slogans can also be heard in both videos.

A video of a torch procession with the same kind of slogans was also found on a Facebook page named “The Politics”. Its slogans match those in the circulating video.

Further investigation found the same procession video and information on the Facebook page of the private television channel ATN News and on the YouTube channel of Channel Nine.

Reviewing the information from these sources, it emerged that the video is actually of a torch procession taken out on 11 November 2025 by supporters of Haji Amin Ur Rashid Yasin, a BNP nomination seeker for Cumilla-6, demanding that he be given the party nomination.

On this matter, a report titled “Torch procession demanding Haji Yasin’s nomination in Cumilla-6” was found on BD24Live on 11 November 2025. The report said local leaders and activists held the procession demanding the party nomination for Haji Amin Ur Rashid Yasin, the BNP nomination seeker for Cumilla-6.

Local leaders and activists had been carrying out a series of programmes for nine consecutive days demanding the party nomination for Haji Amin Ur Rashid Yasin, adviser to the BNP chairperson in Cumilla-06. As part of this movement, a huge torch procession was held in the city on Tuesday (11 November) evening. The organisers claimed several thousand leaders and activists took part.

The torch procession began in the evening from the Town Hall ground. It then marched through various important roads of the city and ended with a rally at Pubali Chattar.

A report published in Dhaka Post on 4 November 2025, titled “Torch procession by supporters of BNP leader Yasin in Cumilla after not getting nomination”, also gave details of the slogans, including “Legechhe re legechhe, rokte agun legechhe” and “Ei Cumillar mati, Yasin bhaiyer ghati”.

In other words, the video circulated claiming a torch procession by Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League leaders and activists in Dhaka in support of the 10 November strike called by Chhatra League is misleading. In reality, the video is of a torch procession taken out on 11 November 2025 by supporters of BNP leader Haji Amin Ur Rashid Yasin in Cumilla-6, demanding his party nomination.

The video, nearly a year old, is being circulated in a different political context as a recent event in Dhaka.