The Patna High Court has ordered the Congress to take down a 36-second artificial intelligence-generated video from all social media platforms, following a complaint alleging that it tarnished the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his late mother, Heeraben Modi, NDTV reported.
The video, posted by the Congress’ Bihar unit on September 10 had garnered 7.1 million views by Wednesday morning. It depicted the prime minister dreaming about his late mother criticising him about his politics in Bihar, ahead of the state’s expected Assembly elections in October or November.
On September 13, the Delhi Police registered a first information report in connection with the video for allegedly tarnishing the image of PM Modi and his late mother.
The Bharatiya Janata Party had accused the Congress of disrespecting Heeraben Modi.
Union minister Giriraj Singh, who is an MP from the state’s Begusarai constituency, had said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had stooped to a new low.
“Rahul Gandhi himself does not respect his own mother, then how come he will respect another’s mother?” PTI quoted Singh as having told reporters.
The Congress had claimed that it had not disrespected the prime minister or his mother.
“What is their objection?” the Hindustan Times had quoted Pawan Khera, the party’s publicity chief, as having asked. “Just because a mother is trying to educate her son to do something right, where is the disrespect? This is neither disrespectful to the mother, whom we respect dearly, nor to the son.”
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