Bihar Congress under fire over AI clip with PM Narendra Modi’s mother

The Bihar Congress sparked a major controversy after releasing an AI-generated video on X that depicts a dream exchange between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his late mother, Heeraben Modi.

The 36-second clip, marked ‘AI generated’, went viral, drawing strong condemnation from the BJP, which called it a personal attack ahead of the state elections.

The video, captioned ‘Maa appears in Sahab’s dreams’, comes weeks after another row over alleged abusive slogans directed at Prime Minister Modi and his mother at a Congress-RJD event in Darbhanga. The BJP has accused the Congress of repeatedly dragging Heeraben Modi into political battles, calling it an “insult to all mothers”.

BJP MP Radha Mohan Das Agrawal described the video as a “new low in politics”, alleging that the Congress was using DeepFake technology to mislead voters. “PM Modi has always kept politics separate from family life. It is painful that the Congress first abused the Prime Minister’s mother and is now insulting all mothers,” he said, promising to approach the Election Commission.

BJP leaders Shehzad Poonawalla and Pradeep Bhandari also lashed out on social media, accusing the Congress of crossing boundaries and targeting women for political gains. “It is no longer Gandhi’s Congress; it has become a Gaali Congress,” Poonawalla said, while Bhandari alleged that the video was part of a campaign led by Rahul Gandhi.

In Hyderabad, BJP leader Boora Narsaiah Goud stepped up the attack, accusing the Congress of eroding political values.

“Rahul Gandhi and the Congress have stooped very low in Indian politics. They first abused PM Modi’s late mother in Bihar, and now the Bihar Congress has released a video using it to taunt him. Rahul Gandhi has lost Indian political ethics and culture. politics,” he said.

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Congress, however, defended the video.

Party leader Pawan Khera questioned BJP’s reaction: ‘Where is the disrespect to his late mother? Show me a word, a gesture, wherever you see disrespect. Sympathy?

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The controversy reignited tensions after Prime Minister Modi in August condemned abusive slogans against his mother as “an insult to India’s millions of mothers and sisters.” He then warned that Bihar would “never tolerate insulting a mother”.

The Congress and the RJD, meanwhile, have denied orchestrating the earlier abuses, saying they were shouted by unknown individuals. Opposition leaders also countered that BJP leaders themselves had used derogatory remarks against Congress women leaders, accusing the party of double standards.