GG News Bureau
Dehradun, 26th Feb. The Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttarakhand on Saturday demanded a public apology from Congress for making a viral “fake” video purportedly showing tampering of postal ballots.
The video allegedly showed a man wearing a military uniform tampering with the postal ballots.
“The Kumaon regiment in an official reply to the Election Commission has said that the video is not from any of the army units in Pithoragarh district,” Pradesh BJP media in-charge Manveer Chauhan said in a statement.
The reply of the Kumaon regiment to the Election Commission makes it clear that the Congress party was insulting the armed forces by claiming that the video was of some army unit, he said.
Congress candidate from Didihat in Pithoragarh district had registered a complaint with the police earlier suspecting that the video was of an army unit located in the constituency.
Senior Congress leader Harish Rawat was the first one to share the video on his Twitter handle and Facebook.
A Congress delegation led by Pradesh Congress president Ganesh Godiyal had also formally asked the chief electoral officer Saujanya to examine the video.
The CEO had then sought a reply from the Pithoragarh District Magistrate on it after talking to officers at army units in the area.
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