AI Stunt By Bihar Congress Crosses the Line
By A Special Correspondent
First publised on 2025-09-13 07:08:27
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In an astonishing display of recklessness, the Bihar unit of the Congress party released an AI-generated video that depicted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his late mother. The video showed a conversation between the two where the mother criticized Modi for his politics. What should have been a sober political engagement has instead turned into a deeply distasteful episode - one that smacks of cheap theatrics and moral bankruptcy.
Political campaigns are meant to engage with policies, governance failures, and ideological differences. They should be rooted in debate and dissent, not in exploiting emotions and manipulating technology to create artificial narratives. The use of AI to fabricate scenes involving the personal lives of public figures, especially of those no longer alive to respond, is not just irresponsible - it is contemptuous.
By dragging a revered mother into partisan politics, Congress has crossed an ethical boundary that even its harshest critics would hesitate to breach. The row has sparked outrage across the political spectrum. Many have rightly condemned the stunt as an attempt to sensationalize, polarize, and divert attention from pressing issues like unemployment, inflation, and governance.
One cannot help but wonder whether this is what the party has been reduced to after years of internal decay and loss of public trust. Resorting to artificial imagery rather than offering credible policy alternatives shows a deep desperation. Instead of addressing its failures, Congress is attempting to score hollow points by misleading voters.
Congress's leadership must ask itself whether this is the path it wants to take - a path that invites ridicule and reinforces perceptions of decay and irrelevance. Political parties must rise above petty provocations and engage in substantive debates that benefit the public. If this is the new normal, democracy itself is the loser.
The Bihar Congress's stunt is not a bold statement - it's an embarrassment. It insults the very voters it seeks to appeal to and cheapens the political space at large. The party must reflect on its choices, apologize, and return to the higher ground that public service demands. Anything less is a betrayal of the values it claims to uphold.
