A viral video circulating on social media purportedly shows Bihar RJD leader Tejaswi Yadav being thrown off a horse during a roadshow. However, fact-checking reveals that the video has been manipulated using AI technology. The original footage, shared by Tejaswi Yadav’s official channels, shows him calmly mounting and riding the horse without any incident. The manipulated clip includes facial morphing and other anomalies, which AI detection tools confirmed with high confidence.

The misinformation appears amid the intensifying Bihar Legislative Assembly election campaign, with political opponents using the doctored video to mock Yadav and his family. The genuine event involved Yadav riding a horse in Mokama as part of his Bihar Adhikar Yatra, sending a political message to local strongman Anant Singh. Overall, the claim that Yadav was thrown off the horse is false, and the viral video is an AI-generated deepfake.