Home Minister Amit Shah today launched a frontal assault on the Congress, after a deepfake video of him claiming that he will eliminate reservations went viral. A Congress worker, Reetam Singh, from Guwahati, Assam, was taken into custody yesterday on suspicion of creating and disseminating the Home Minister’s deepfake video.

The deepfake video allegedly showed Shah discussing the scrapping of all reservations, but in reality, he was discussing the removal of Telangana’s Muslim quota due to religious reasons. In Karnataka, the BJP had eliminated this kind of quota before losing the state to the Congress.

Shah played both of the videos during a press conference today to show what he truly said and what the manipulated content said he said.

After playing the video Shah said, it is unfair and unacceptable to impose quotas based on religious beliefs. In Karnataka, they have already gotten rid of it. He had said in the original video.

The Home Minister claimed that the fake video twisted it to say the BJP will scrap all reservations.

As a matter of fact, Shah had said that the BJP would not permit anyone to remove reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes, referring to this as Modi’s guarantee.

Rahul Gandhi claims that the BJP will remove reservations if it wins 400 seats. While we enjoyed a complete majority for two terms, as I mentioned earlier, Narendra Modi is a proponent of reservations. Shah said, he want to emphasize that it is a Modi promise that the BJP will not eliminate reservations for SCs, STs, and OBCs, nor will it permit anyone to do so.

The BJP’s demand for abki baar 400 paar has been accused by opposition parties of being a ploy to gain 400 seats in the Lok Sabha in order to gain enough members in parliament to remove ST, SC, and OBC quotas.

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has received a notice from Delhi Police about the doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah related to reservations. Five people have been identified by the police in relation to this case. They will also receive the notice.

Reddy had been asked to join the investigation on May 1 by the Delhi Police. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs submitted a complaint, and the Delhi Police responded by filing a FIR earlier yesterday.

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has been called to appear before Delhi Police’s IFSO unit (Cyber Unit) on May 1, to participate in the probe, according to source. The CM has been summoned to come with the phone that was purportedly used to upload the fake video to X (formerly Twitter), the source added.

According to a complaint the Ministry of Home Affairs filed with the Delhi Police, several doctored movies have been discovered to be being shared by Facebook and X (Twitter) users. According to the report, the video appears to have been altered to disseminate false information and create discord among communities, which could have an impact on public order.

The BJP has claimed that the video was edited to misrepresent Shah’s initial remarks made at a political rally.

Social media users who are critical of the BJP have started posting the fake video along with the untrue assertion that the saffron party intends to abolish reservations. Constitutional issues and reservation issues have emerged as crucial election campaign issues between the Congress and the BJP. The BJP has accused the Congress of taking away the SC, ST, and OBC reservations and giving them to the Muslims, while the Congress has accused the BJP of wanting to amend the constitution and abolish reservation.

The Election Commission of India asked the Aam Aadmi Party to modify its election campaign song on Sunday. The Election Commission pointed out that the phrase jail ke jawaab me hum vote denge shows an aggressive mob holding the photo of Arvind Kejriwal showing him behind bars, casts a bad impression of the judiciary. The ECI added that the phrase appears several times in the advertisement which contravenes the provisions of ECI Guidelines and Rule 6(1\(g) of Programme and Advertising Codes prescribed under the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994.

AAP minister Atishi attacked the ECI for putting a ban on the party’s Lok Sabha election campaign song. She said this has happened for the first time in the history of India that the Election Commission has put a ban on the election song of a political party.

The Election Commission listed some of the phrases that it found in violation of codes. The phrase: Tanashahi party ko hum chot denge with the video clip showing the protesters clash with the police (running from 00:21 to 00:23) incites violence. The phrase: gunda gardi ke khilaf vote denge and Tanashahi karne wali party ko hum chot denge running from duration 00:27 to 00:32 Sec with the video clip showing Manish Sisodia being escorted by the police. The words and the video clip shows the police in bad light.

The Election Commision said the phrase: Awazein khilaf thi jo sabko jail me daal dia, bas unko hi bahar rakha jisne inko maal dia. Itna lalach, itna nafrat, bhrastachari se mohabbat shows slanderous remarks and is a criticism of BJP on the basis of unverified facts and also casts bad impression of the judiciary. The Election Commission stated that the phrase Tanashahi party ko hum chot denge with the video clip showing aggressive mob clashing with the police shows criticism of the ruling party based on unverified facts.