Sangeet Som, a senior BJP leader in Uttar Pradesh, has been accused by the police of circulating a video that claimed to show the lynching of two Hindu Jat boys; the footage was actually two years old and from Pakistan. The ruling Samajwadi Party has accused the BJP of provoking the Muzaffarnagar riots. The BJP says it's being made a scapegoat by a government that failed abysmally to protect its people.