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.
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. “Some corrupt officer didn’t issue my death certificate; hence, I remained on the voting list.
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.
The Cockroach Janta Party, a pressure group, and the Congress have launched separate but overlapping protests demanding Kumar’s resignation, alleging electoral fraud.
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.
