Slugfest Over Ramlila Rally: BJP's Kiren Rijiju points out AI-generated image, Congress shares drone visuals of crowd

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Incident details

Incident ID: inc_2026_11_02_e58ee647
Date source: article_published_at_fallback
Country: India
Platform: Social Media
Incident type: Synthetic Image Fraud
Verification level: reported_but_unverified

Harm types

Misinformation Reputational Harm

Topics

Synthetic Image Image Manipulation Authenticity Harm

Summary

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju posted on X accusing the Congress party of using an AI-generated image to exaggerate crowd size at an INDIA bloc rally held at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan protesting Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Rijiju’s post did not include or identify a specific image and the accusation had not received an official response from Congress at the time of reporting. Congress countered by sharing drone footage and photos from the event, saying lakhs attended the protest. The reporting describes the visual manipulation as an alleged AI-generated (synthetic) crowd image but does not verify whether the shared viral image was in fact synthetic.

Sources

Slugfest Over Ramlila Rally: BJP's Kiren Rijiju points out AI-generated image, Congress shares drone visuals of crowd

dnaindia.com · 2026-11-02 · Primary