Gangster Vikas Dubey was a Bharatiya Janata Party supporter.

A photo of a Bharatiya Janata Party leader is being shared on social media with the false claim that the man in the photo is Vikas Dubey.

A photo of a Bharatiya Janata Party leader is being shared on social media with the false claim that the man in the photo is Vikas Dubey.Vikas Dubey, chairman of BJP Kanpur, Bundelkhand region, and the chief of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), stated that he would be taking action against people who are spreading fake news by misidentifying him as the gangster Vikas Dubey. A viral image showed Vikas Dubey from BJP with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with the claim that the person in the photo is Vikas Dubey, the gangster who killed eight police officers.

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