Union minister
Amit Shah
said on Saturday that by posting a
fake video
of him (Shah) on social media,
Telangana CM
A
Revanth Reddy
touched a raw nerve and invited trouble, reports Sushil Rao.
“You have meddled with the wrong person. Now, the
Delhi police
are after you for circulating a fabricated and edited video of mine and that scaring you,” Shah said at a rally in Chevella, Telangana, in support of a BJP candidate on the last day of campaigning.
Delhi police had registered a case on April 28 over the
doctored video
showing Shah advocating the abolition of
reservation
for SCs, STs and OBCs, and issued summons to Revanth to appear on May 1, which he skipped. A couple of days ago, Revanth, who is also party Telangana unit president, said: “Amit bhai is trying to scare me and using his ministry to do so. If a political party produced a doctored video against another party or leader, the party concerned has to complain. But in this case the complaint was filed by the home ministry.”
BJP spokesperson Amit Malviya, on the other hand, said the morphed video had been altered to misrepresent Shah’s remarks on the issue of reservation for Muslims in Telangana.
At the
Chevella rally
, Shah said only the NDA govt could protect the country against terrorism. “People ask why Telangana would be interested in what is happening in Jammu and Kashmir. They are interested because they are connected. Youth from Telangana serve in the Army to protect the country’s borders. So, whatever the govt decides is in the best interests of Telangana people too,” he said.
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