‘Voice moduled using AI’: BJP Mandal President writes to CBI over ‘sting’ video on Sandeshkhali
Live MintThe Bharatiya Janata Party Mandal president, Gangadhar Kayl has written a complaint to the Central Bureau of Investigation over a new video on the Sandeshkhali incident. On Saturday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress party posted a video on social media, claiming that the Sandeshkhali episode was a "conspiracy" by the BJP to defame West Bengal ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. In the purported video BJP Mandal president Gangadhar Kayl in Sandeshkhali, was heard saying that leader of the opposition in the West Bengal assembly "Suvendu Adhikari is behind the whole conspiracy". The man alleged in the video that Adhikari had asked him and other BJP leaders of the area to "instigate three-four local women to level allegations of rape against three TMC leaders, including Shajahan Sheikh". In a post titled ‘Big expose on Sandeshkhali' on X, the ruling TMC said, Adhikari created a “false narrative of mass rapes by paying money to local people to defame Bengal and Sandeshkhli".