'Doctored By BJP's Dirty Tricks Dept': Congress On 'Pakistan Zindabad' Slogans At Rahul's Yatra

"We are taking the necessary legal action immediately. We are prepared for such tactics, and there will be payback," Jairam Ramesh said on Twitter.

The chief of the BJP's IT cell Amit Malviya claimed in a video posted on Friday that "Pakistan Zindabad" slogans were shouted during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Madhya Pradesh, but the Congress called the claim "doctored" and warned that the "dirty tricks department" of the ruling party that there will be "payback" for such actions, news agency PTI reported.

Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Kamal Nath, the president of the Congress in Madhya Pradesh, can all be seen strolling in a video of the Yatra that the head of the BJP's IT unit tweeted. At the conclusion of the 21-second video, a person can be heard allegedly chanting "Pakistan Zindabad."

Bhanbarad in the Khargone district was being traversed by the yatra at the time.

Taking to Twitter, Malviya stated: "After Richa Chaddha's public application to join Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat 'Jodo' Yatra, 'Pakistan Zindabad' (listen towards the end of the video) slogans raised in Khargon. INC MP posted the video and then deleted it after the faux pas came to light. This is Congress's truth…"

Jairam Ramesh, the general secretary in charge of communications for the Congress, responded by claiming that a film that was "doctored" by the BJP's "dirty tricks department" is being circulated to tarnish the "highly successful" Bharat Jodo Yatra.

"We are taking the necessary legal action immediately. We are prepared for such tactics, and there will be payback," he said on Twitter.

Ramesh claimed in another tweet that the Madhya Pradesh government "intimidated" and obstructed Rahul Gandhi from visiting with tribal families who had been displaced by a diamond mining project in the Chhatarpur area in the afternoon.

"This is democracy-BJP style," the Congress leader said. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, however, asked in a tweet, “The raising of Pakistan Zindabad slogan is uniting Bharat or uniting those who are breaking the country? Earlier also Bharat was divided, any plan to do it again? Those raising `Pakistan Zindabad' slogans will not be spared at any cost.”

State BJP president Vishnu Dutt Sharma said the raising of the slogan proved that this was the same Rahul Gandhi "who stood with those in JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) who wanted to disintegrate Bharat Mata into pieces."

(With PTI Inputs)