The Supreme Court agreed to hear the lawsuit on November 25. File | Photo credit: The Hindu
The Supreme Court on Friday (October 31, 2025) agreed to hear a plea on November 25 seeking the removal of an AI-generated video circulated on September 15 by the BJP Assam unit on its official X-handle “BJP Assam Pradesh”, “showing a grossly false narrative that does not remain in Assam after BJP’s Muslim takeover”. Council elections in 2026.
“The broad message of the video is that the worst fate that can befall a state is its takeover by Muslims. And that on the basis of an assurance that if the BJP is elected to power, the state would be saved from that,” said the petition filed by journalist Qurban Ali and former HC judge Anjana Prakash through advocate Lzafeer Ahmad. Both are originally petitioners in the ongoing hate speech case. Photographs attached to the applications showed men and women wearing caps and burqas against the backdrop of major state landmarks such as the Rang Ghar and Guwahati Airport, with a message at the end to voters – “choose your vote carefully”.
“Immediate takedown required”
The application was mentioned orally before a bench headed by Justice Vikram Nath advocate Nizam Pasha. He said the court had previously issued a summons to sue, but the matter had not come up for hearing. The app pointed out that the video had been reposted 6,100 times, liked 19,000 times and viewed 4.6 million times, prompting its “immediate removal to prevent further spread of communal disharmony, unrest and enmity”.
“It is submitted that as the ruling dispensation, ‘BJP-Assam’ is bound by the Constitution of India and therefore bound to promote secular values which form part of the basic structure of the Constitution. However, the video circulated by its official Twitter account openly targets, defames and demonises Muslims,” the petition said.
The complainants claimed that the video showed “the complete disregard for secular values that is bound by the ruling dispensation of any state of our country”. “The state government, elected and created under the constitution, is the guardian of all communities and the constitution specifically prohibits it from engaging in discrimination on the basis of religion, race, caste, sex, language, among others,” he further said.
Published – 31 Oct 2025 20:43 IST
