Nitin Shukla calls himself a journalist, analyst, and life coach, but he’s just a Hindu supremacist. He has a YouTube channel by the name Nitin Shukla with 348K subscribers where he regularly posts propaganda videos mostly aimed at Muslims to humiliate them. 

On January 29, 2024, a stampede at the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj killed 30 people and injured 60. After the incident, a video showing men chanting slogans for Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav went viral, with many claiming these men caused the stampede.

Shukla, a BJP supporter, shared the video, falsely accusing the group of triggering the chaos. He claimed they were part of a bus group that caused the stampede. However, a fact-check revealed the video was recorded two days before the incident, on January 27. The original footage, posted by Pradeep Yadav, confirmed the video had nothing to do with the stampede.

Despite the evidence, Shukla continued spreading the false claim, misleading his followers and fueling political tension. 

In July 2024, Shukla posted a video of two women in burqas distributing water bottles, falsely claiming they were helping rioters. He added a misleading voice-over suggesting their clothing showed support for one side. However, fact-checkers found that the video was actually from a student protest in Bangladesh and had nothing to do with riots. The original video had no such claims, but Shukla spread the false information through his YouTube Live.

On January 26, 2024, a video (which is now unavailable) from Shukla’s YouTube channel, “Nitin Shukla Latest Video,” began circulating, which linked journalist Mohammed Zubair’s award to the trending controversy surrounding suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma. The video, which has approximately 300,000 followers, accused Zubair of being responsible for the deaths of Hindu individuals, such as Kanhaiya Lal and Umesh Kohle, and claimed that Zubair’s actions were a direct cause of the danger posed to Nupur Sharma. The voiceover in the video further accused Zubair of “protecting terrorists openly” and making other baseless allegations.

Shukla’s video presents a series of unfounded accusations with the intention of inflaming tensions, specifically targeting Hindu viewers, especially those eligible to vote in Tamil Nadu. These allegations were not only misleading but were also part of a broader pattern of content that associates Zubair with acts of violence and extremism, despite no evidence to support such claims.

In April 2022, Shukla posted a CCTV clip claiming that two Hindu men were attacked by Muslims in Delhi’s Sangam Vihar. However, fact-checkers found that the video was from December 2021 and had no communal angle. Police confirmed it was a case of robbery and murder, and one accused, Ramjan Ali, had already been arrested. Shukla repurposed the old footage with a false claim to spread misinformation.

In 2018, Shukla shared a video of an elderly man being beaten, claiming it was a Muslim man attacking a sadhu in Uttarakhand. He tweeted, suggesting that this was part of a larger pattern of violence against sadhus.

The video quickly went viral, with several other social media accounts spreading the same false claim. However, fact-checkers found that the man in the video was not a sadhu but a beggar from Dehradun. The police clarified that the man had molested a woman while intoxicated and was beaten by her brother, who was not Muslim but Hindu. An FIR was filed against the beggar, and the police debunked the communal claim circulating on social media.