Lucknow:
Synthetic Intelligence (AI) has been weaponised forward of the Uttar Pradesh 2027 election contest, with the ruling BJP on Tuesday accusing the Samajwadi Occasion of insulting Hindu saints with its newest video that references donation irregularities on the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and takes potshots at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. That video, launched by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, was itself a retort to a BJP video that referred to as him corrupt. Because the BJP bought offended, Akhilesh’s celebration doubled down by repeating the shot at Adityanath.
“Pricey residents of the state, now Akhilesh Yadav has himself eliminated and discarded his masks,” the UP BJP unit posted on its social media channels. “Now he has crossed the road and made it clear to the individuals of the state what his true ideology is, by holding a press convention and insulting saints, Sanatan, and the religion of crores of Sanatanis in a public show of his anti-Sanatan mindset.”
Akhilesh Yadav, a former CM whose celebration gained a majority of the state’s Lok Sabha seats in 2024 in a shock to the BJP, confirmed the video at a press convention on Monday. That was after he confirmed one other video, which he attributed to the BJP, that made allegations in opposition to him. “There’s another video that was despatched to me,” he stated, “It isn’t Samajwadi Occasion’s video, however it’s a video which was given to me by somebody.”
After which he performed the video, depicting males in saffron robes stealing from a temple donation field. It additionally confirmed Adityanath smoking, and the lyrics of the tune went: “UP badnaam hua, Baba tere maare…”, that means “UP has develop into notorious due to Baba (a reference to Adityanath)”. This was his clapback at a music video circulated by some BJP-aligned social media handles that referred to as Akhilesh by his nickname, Teepu, and the lyrics stated, “UP badnaam hua, Teepu tere maare.”
Jagdambika Pal, a senior BJP chief and MP, reacted: “Akhilesh Yadav has been CM; he ought to keep some dignity.” He requested, rhetorically, if the Opposition would “degrade to such an extent” that it could present Adityanatha smoking a chillum (clay pipe, used for smoking hashish). “In Akhilesh’s thoughts, the picture of a sage or saint is barely of somebody smoking a chillum. I believe the general public of Uttar Pradesh will ship a reply to this in 2027.”
The SP then posted one other video with the identical depiction of Adityanath, and wrote: “Uttar Pradesh is being choked by smoke.”
प्रिय प्रदेशवासियों, अब अखिलेश यादव ने अपना मुखौटा स्वयं उतारकर फेंक दिया है। अब उन्होंने लकीर भी खींच दी है और प्रदेश की जनता के सामने यह भी स्पष्ट कर दिया है कि उनकी मूल विचारधारा क्या है।
प्रेस कॉन्फ्रेंस करके साधु-संतों, सनातन परंपरा और करोड़ों सनातनियों की आस्था का जिस… pic.twitter.com/oBuJpFXtJA
— BJP Uttar Pradesh (@BJP4UP) September 1, 2026
Subrat Pathak, a Basic Secretary of UP BJP and who misplaced to Akhilesh from Kannauj in 2024, additionally attacked the SP: “Yogi ji is not only a chief minister. He’s a saint. And what their (SP’s) notion of him is, has come to gentle via this AI video.” He claimed the SP will not depict a Muslim cleric in such a fashion “even when that maulana or maulvi publicly insults his personal spouse”.
Akhilesh stated when he confirmed the primary video on Yogi, “If the BJP makes use of AI to make songs concentrating on me, we can even reply to these songs with songs.”
