NEW DELHI, Sep 12: The BJP and its allies on Friday lashed out at the Congress after the opposition party’s Bihar unit posted on social media an AI-generated video depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his late mother, calling it “shameful” and wondering how low it will stoop to target Modi.
Seeking to target the prime minister, the Bihar Congress had on Wednesday posted the video on its X handle, with a prompt in Hindi, “Sahab ke sapno mein aayi maa. Dekhiye rochak samvaad (Mother came in sahab’s dream. Watch an interesting interaction between them.) The video portrayed Modi’s mother criticising him for his politics.
Reacting sharply, senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “Is this the level the Congress party has stooped to? Making memes of our prime minister’s late mother, that too of such a cheap standard. How low will the Congress fall?” The ex-Union minister condemned the Congress for sharing such a video on social media and demanded an answer from party leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
“It’s shameful. We will make it a very big issue across the country,” the Patna Sahib MP charged.
CONGRESS REACTS
The Congress said no disrespect was shown to the PM or his mother.
“What is their objection? Just because a mother is trying to educate the son to do something right, where is it disrespectful, neither to the mother, whom we respect dearly, nor to the son,” Congress’ media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said.“He (Modi) needs to just understand that there are ways of trying to educate him, ‘this is your rajdharma’, the mother is trying to explain to him. Where is the disrespect? We have shown no disrespect to his late mother,” Khera told PTI Videos.
JD-U working president Sanjay Kumar Jha termed the Congress’ post on X an “extremely vile act” and said that with this, the party has proved that hurling abuses at Modi’s late mother from its platform in Darbhanga was part of its “well-thought-out strategy”. (PTI)
