
The Tripura state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday cried loud that the video of state sports minister at Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s programme as ‘doctored’.
A video clip of Tripura sports minister Manoj Kanti Deb
touching social welfare minister Shantana Chakma ‘inappropriately’ on
Saturday at the event where Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated
slew of projects went viral on Sunday.
The state unit of the
saffron brigade has said that the video is manipulated to launch a
‘malicious campaign’ by the opposition, according to reports.
Even Deb was quoted as saying that how can that be possible in front of a large crowd.
Clearing
the air over the whole issue, the in charge of the media cell of
Tripura unit of BJP, Victor Shom clarified that the video was ‘cropped’.
If one sees the whole unedited video, the picture becomes clear.
He
said that the sports minister was at a corner and when the Prime
Minister was about the inaugurate the projects, he tried to come forward
when the scene happened ‘inadvertently’.