Last Updated: March 04, 2024, 17:05 IST
BJP MP Upendra Singh Rawat (Image/X/File)
Soon after Upendra Singh 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
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”.
