Senior BJP leader Smriti Irani skipped naming Rahul Gandhi in her latest salvo on X targeting the Congress leader over his staunch opposition to the Special Intensive Revision exercise, but went a step further.
The Cockroach Janta Party, a pressure group, and the Congress have launched separate but overlapping protests demanding Kumar’s resignation, alleging electoral fraud. To drive home her central point that SIR was carried out across the country to eliminate bogus voters from voting lists, she used an artificial intelligence-modified video which showed the Member of Parliament and Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan discussing the exercise. “Everyone knows that he is dead and can’t vote. “Some corrupt officer didn’t issue my death certificate; hence, I remained on the voting list.
He is just not letting it be proved that he has died by twisting rules,” the AI-generated Rahul Gandhi tells the police officer in the video, pointing out at Bachchan, who plays a ghost, a character derived from his 2008 hit Bhoothnath.
You will be surprised to know that some party cast a vote in my name,” says the actor’s character in the video, explaining why the government went for the exercise. Irani’s remarks come amid a raging controversy regarding SIR — which deleted millions of names from electoral rolls across the country — following a newspaper report which said two election commissioners weren’t informed about several decisions the poll body had taken linked to the exercise.
Earlier this year, she made a comeback to the forefront of the BJP after the party appointed her as one of the national general secretaries, just months ahead of crucial assembly elections in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
