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The claim states that the speaker talking about the criminalisation of politics in the video is an IPS officer from Lucknow, Shailja Kant Misra. The clip has more than 434K views and was
uploaded by writer Harinder S Sikka. It was posted with a caption in Hindi that said, "_कृपा हर देशवासी तक कड़वा सत्य पहुँचाए।आज़ादी के बाद से हम ग़ुलामों की तरह आपराधिक नेताओं को
समर्पित हैं। इमर्जन्सी,ऑपरेशन ब्लूस्टार,1984 में सिखों की हत्या,गोदरा ट्रेन में हिंदुओं को ज़िंदा जलाना,दिल्ली में शराब पर छूट से पैसे कामना…? क़ुसूर हमारा है,हम नपुंसक हैं,नेता नहीं_।"
(Translation: Kindly make this bitter truth reach every countryman. Since independence, we have been devoted to criminal leaders like slaves. Emergency, Operation Blue Star, the killing of
Sikhs in 1984, the burning alive of Hindus in a train in Godhra in 2002, earning revenue from alcohol exemption in Delhi…? The fault is ours, we are impotent, not the leaders.) Archives of
similar posts can be accessed here, here, and here. The video has been viral with similar claims since 2020. Here are some archives from the same year which can be found here and here.