BJP MP Upendra Singh Rawat, who was named as the party’s Lok Sabha candidate from Barabanki, opted out of Lok Sabha polls on Monday amid controversy around a viral obscene video clip which he called fake.
Soon after Rawat was named as BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Barabanki, a video surfaced on social media featuring a man in an objectionable position with a woman.
“An edited video of mine is being made viral which is generated by DeepFake AI technology, for which I have lodged an FIR. In this regard, I have requested the Honorable National President to get it investigated. I will not contest any election in public life until I am proven innocent,” Upendra Singh Rawat said in an X post.
According to a Hindustan Times report, based on a complaint by MP Upendra Singh Rawat’s personal secretary Dinesh Chandra Rawat, police lodged an FIR against an unknown accused in the case.
According to the FIR, the video was tampered with to damage the MP’s reputation following his candidacy announcement.
Rawat stated that as soon as “I got the party’s ticket from Barabanki, my opponents did this act”.
Amid several sitting BJP MPs opting out of Lok Sabha polls, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday took a dig at the ruling party, saying that the “BJP was never so weak as a party”.
“Who would have thought that such days would come for the BJP that some candidates will give up their claim on the pretext of saying that some other work is more important before getting the ticket? Someone will talk about going out considering sports as more serious than politics. Someone will write an application to get out of the deciduous BJP on the pretext of environment. BJP was never so weak as a party. Now apart from the public, even the BJP people themselves are saying, ‘Don’t want BJP’,” Yadav wrote in an X post in Hindi.
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