NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Celebration on Friday lashed out Congress over an AI-generated video mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his late mom Heeraben.Senior BJP leaders accused Congress of taking a vow to “repeatedly insult” PM Modi’s mom.Union Minister Piyush Goyal attacked the “despondent” Congress, saying the grand outdated celebration was creating new data of depravity day-after-day.“After being repeatedly rejected by the general public, a despondent Congress, with a warped mentality, is now set on creating new data of depravity day-after-day,” Goyal wrote on X.BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya additionally seized on the controversy to focus on Rahul Gandhi. He claimed that PM Modi’s mom was being insulted on Rahul’s directions.“Beforehand, the late mom of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji was insulted from the Congress-RJD platform. Now, a video of her is being made to humiliate her,” Malviya stated.“This clearly exhibits that Prime Minister Ji’s mom is being insulted on the directions of Rahul Gandhi. That is the peak of Congress’s deplorable politics,” he added.BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla additionally termed Congress as “gaali wali Congress.”“Not Gandhi’s Congress, however an Abusive Congress: Insult to the mom; India is not going to tolerate it,” he wrote on X.In the meantime, Congress chief Pawan Khera refuted BJP’s allegations and claimed that no one was disrespected.Khera accused the BJP of attempting to make use of the difficulty to garner sympathy.“The place is the disrespect proven to his late mom? Present me one phrase, one gesture, one sign… wherever you see disrespect. It’s the responsibility of fogeys, and their proper, to teach their youngsters. She is simply educating her baby. Now, if the kid thinks that it’s disrespectful in direction of him, it’s his headache, not mine or yours,” Khera stated.“Why does the BJP attempt to make a problem out of all the pieces and attempt to generate pretend sympathy? There isn’t a sympathy on these items anymore. PM Modi cannot do ‘touch-me-not’ politics. He’s in politics and he must take all the pieces — even a way of humour of the opposition — correctly. And there’s no humour in it, there’s ‘naseehat’ (recommendation) on this,” he added.The clip, shared on Wednesday, begins with an AI model of PM Modi going to sleep after declaring that the day’s “vote chori” (vote theft) is completed. He then desires of his mom, and the AI model of Heeraben seems.“First you compelled me to face in lengthy queues throughout demonetisation and made a reel of washing my toes. Now you might be doing politics in Bihar in my identify. You might be getting banners of my ‘insult’ printed. You might be once more doing drama in Bihar. How low will you stoop?” she asks earlier than “PM Modi” hurriedly wakes up.This comes days after the prime minister was abused throughout a Congress-RJD rally within the poll-bound state, together with his mom being talked about.He hit again quickly after, calling the remarks an insult not solely to him however to “each mom, sister, and daughter of the nation,” including that the individuals of Bihar shared his anguish.Heeraben Modi handed away in December 2022 on the age of 99.
