The Congress has asked the Election Commission to take note and said it is planning to file a police complaint against an AI generated video posted by the Assam BJP on X, captioned ‘Assam without BJP’, and suggesting that the state would be overrun by the minority community if this happened.
The video was posted by the handle ‘BJP Assam Pradesh’ late on Monday. Underneath the text ‘Assam without BJP’, a series of AI generated images appear, including of a man in a skull cap cutting meat by the road that is labelled ‘beef legalisation’; of Assam Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi standing in front of the flag of Pakistan; of men in skullcaps and women in burqas and hijabs at different locations such as tea gardens, the airport, an amusement park, a stadium in Guwahati, the Ahom dynasty monument Rang Ghar; and lastly walking across a border fence, with this image labelled ‘illegal immigrants’.The video ends with a text saying ‘90% Muslim population’, followed by ‘Choose your vote carefully’.
The video was shared by the BJP with the tagline: ‘We can’t let this dream of Paijaan to be true!” Paijaan is a name the BJP has coined and has been using in social media posts to refer to Gogoi, ever since Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma started alleging that he was a “Pakistani stooge”.
On Wednesday, Congress leader Supriya Shrinate shared the BJP’s post and, tagging the EC’s official handle, said: “Do you have any objection to such posts? BJP is spreading venom in this manner Gyanesh ji (a reference to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar), will you continue to be a mute spectator as usual by calling it a conspiracy?”
Assam Congress leader Bedabrata Bora said the party will file a complaint against the post at the Bhangagarh Police Station in Guwahati on Thursday.
Reacting to the video, Gogoi said, “The words, actions and images produced by the BJP IT cell do not even have the strength to scratch the surface of Assamese society.
Assam has been nurtured by Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardeva, Azan Pir, Swargadeo Siukapha, Lachit Borphukan and Bhupen Hazarika.
