By Shinjinee Majumder and Mohammed Zubair

National president of the Indian Youth Congress Srinivas BV on April 15 tweeted a video of Bhojpuri actor and BJP’s Azamgarh MP Dinesh Lal Yadav, popularly known as Nirahua, saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath did their bit to curb unemployment by not giving birth to children. Yadav can be heard further saying that the ones responsible for unemployment in the country are the ones who have multiple children.

https://twitter.com/srinivasiyc/status/1779730613979009335?t=80k0_QNc0Je46dNHD3080g&s=19

Responding to Srinivas BV’s tweet, Nirahua claimed that the video was ‘fake’. “Anyone who sees it will understand that the lips are saying something else. What do you want to prove by cloning the sound with AI?”, asked Nirahua.

https://twitter.com/srinivasiyc/status/1779730613979009335?t=-M6mm3by_ARPTbfEpIifwQ&s=19

Soon, BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya took to X (Twitter) to make a similar claim in response to Srinivas BV’s tweet. Malviya stated that Congress was using deepfakes to mislead people and the BJP MP from Azamgarh was filing an FIR against the IYC president and taking up the matter with the Election Commission of India.

https://twitter.com/amitmalviya/status/1779752407268053104?t=RQyNzzXXBG3B5HDFms_SBw&s=19

National secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Tajinder Bagga tweeted the video and urged the Uttar Pradesh police to take action against the Congress leader who shared the ‘fake video’ of BJP MP Dinesh Lal Yadav.

https://twitter.com/TajinderBagga/status/1779763711441559594?t=IK6d2jTZE5DCuYbr4QEdng&s=19

Several other X users amplified the claim that the video was fake.

The Video is Not a Deepfake

While a discernible lag between the audio and the video can be noticed in the viral videos, the full-length interview of Dinesh Lal Yadav is available on the YouTube channel Soul Up No. The video is approximately 12 minutes long. The viral part comes at the 11:27-minute mark. Here, Dinesh Lal Yadav can be heard and seen saying whatever Srinivas BV alleged he had said.

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