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‘Crossed all limits’: BJP hits back at Congress for AI-generated video of PM Modi’s mother, calls it ‘disgusting’

The video was shared by Bihar Congress on their X handle two days ago and shows "PM Modi dreaming about his late mother who is criticising him over his politics in poll-bound Bihar."

Bihar congress Modi's motherIn the AI-generated purported video posted by Bihar Congress on September 10, "the PM is seen dreaming about his late mother who is criticising him over his politics in poll-bound Bihar. (Source: X/shehzadpoonawalla)
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The Bhartiya Janata Party on Friday criticised an AI-generated video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother shared by Congress, calling the video “disgusting.”

The video was shared by Bihar Congress on their X handle two days ago and shows “PM Modi dreaming about his late mother who is criticising him over his politics in poll-bound Bihar.”

Sharing the video, BJP national spokesman, Shehzad Poonawala, in a post on Instagram, said, “Bihar Congress crossed all limits with a disgusting video. This party has become gaaliwadi instead of gandhiwadi… mahila aur maatru shakti ka apman is Congress ki pehchaan… shameful…abuse Bihar as bidi and abuse a person no longer with us.”

He added that instead of showing remorse for abusing PM’s mother earlier, the party now has crossed all limits with the latest video. “Far from having remorse for abusing the PM’s mother. Congress not only justified defending the accused with lies. Tariq Anwar too defended. And now Bihar Congress crossed all limits with a disgusting video,” he wrote.

Echoing a similar view, senior BJP leader Anurag Thakur told reporters, “RJD and Congress have shown how low politics can go. To indulge in mudslinging and mock someone’s mother, and that too, who has passed away, from the land of Bihar … people of Bihar know them (RJD and Congress), they will never forgive leaders of such parties for this insult. It’s disgusting and shameful…they will face a humiliating defeat in the coming assembly polls.” “When someone from this land abuses the late mother of PM Modi ji, the people of Bihar will give them a befitting reply,” Thakur said, as per PTI.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal also hit back at the video, calling it “distorted mentality of Congress.”

“Frustrated after being repeatedly rejected by the public, Congress, with a distorted mentality, is now set on creating new records of baseness every day,” he said in a post on X.

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Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said “no wonder Congress is losing elections.”

“There is a limit to falling into inhumanity. Congress has lost its credibility and the trust of the people. No wonder the Congress party is continuously losing elections. They are not learning any lessons even from being rejected by the public,” he said on X.

Earlier, PM Modi’s late mother was allegedly “abused” by a man from the stage set up for the ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ organised by the Congress and RJD in Bihar’s Darbhanga district last month.

The altercation between the two parties comes as the Bihar elections draw near. Congress has accused the BJP of ‘vote chori’ and criticised both the Election Commission and BJP of implementing special intensive revision ahead of the polls.

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