A correspondent mailbag@ mid- day. com Hours after BJP spokesperson, Sambit Patra, shared a video on Twitter in which Congress leader and former minister, Naseem Khan is seen saying u2018 Pakistan Zindabadu2019, the latter filed a police complaint on Friday.
Speaking to mid- day, Khan said, u201c Have filed a complaint against Patra with the Commissioner of Police, Saki Naka police and the Election Commission to teach him a lesson.u201d He said that the BJP had stooped to the lowest level while campaigning for the Delhi assembly elections, and since their defeat was confirmed, they were resorting to cheap tricks to defame the Opposition.
Patra posted the video, in which Khan is seen saying, u201c Pakistan Zindabad. If Modiji has courage, if Rajnath has drank his motheru2019s milk, then file a sedition case,u201d and asked people on social media to run a fact check.
However, in the original clip dated June 20, 2016, Khan is heard questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi about Sri Sri Ravishankaru2019s statement. At an event in Delhi, the spiritual guru had said, u201c Jai Hind and Pakistan Zindabad should go together for peace and development in the region.u201d In the actual video, Khan had said, u201c I want to ask Modiji that today on the banks of Yamuna, Sri Ravi Shankar raised the slogan of u2018 Pakistan Zindabadu2019, in presence of Rajnath Singh.
Will he be prosecuted for sedition? If Modi ji has courage, if Rajnath has drank his motheru2019s milk, then file a sedition case and show.u201d Khan further said, u201c In a bid to defame the Congress and me, Patra shared an edited version of an old video without verifying its veracity. He did this because he wants to create a divide in the society and use it for political gains.u201d He said that an RS worker had doctored the video. u201c Even at that time a complaint had been filed against the fake video.
And it was found that the person had edited the original video to make a fake one.
Despite this, the BJP is circulating the fake video again,u201d he added.
u2018 BJP posted fake video to defame meu2019 Congress leader Naseem Khan files police complaint against BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra after he posts video on twitter Sambit Patra ( left) and Naseem Khan. FILE PICS u2018 In a bid to defame the Congress and me, Patra shared an edited version of an old video without verifying its veracity.
He did this because he wants to create a divide in the society and use it for political gainsu2019 Naseem Khan, Congress leader
