New Delhi: Ahead of the 2026 Assam assembly elections, on September 15, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s state unit posted a blatantly communal AI generated video on X (formerly Twitter). While there has been no response yet from the Election Commission of India, appeals to religion constitute “corrupt practices” under the Representation of the Peoples Act, 1951.
The video was posted just a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Assam’s communally-volatile Darrang on September 14, where he once again referred to illegal infiltration and “attempts to change demographic balance in border areas”.
The BJP Assam’s video titled “Assam without BJP” shows a series of images with skull cap wearing men and burqa-clad women in various spots including Assam’s tea estates, Guwahati airport, Guwahati Accoland, Guwahati Ranghar and illegal immigrants “acquiring government land” and warns of 90% Muslim population.
The video also warns of beef legalisation with an image of a skull cap wearing man cutting meat and AI generated images of Assam Congress president and Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi and leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi calling them “Pakistan-linked Party”.
It ends with the caption: “Choose your vote carefully.”
A day earlier, in Darrang, Modi reminded the people that the first spark of the anti-foreigner movement of the 1980s was ignited in Mangaldoi. He also referred to the eviction drives under chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s government as a move aimed at ‘infiltrators’.
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