Pune, April 18 -- A few days after Mahayuti leaders criticised Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena over the purported use of Artificial Intelligence to recreate the voice of party's founder Balasaheb Thackeray, Nationalist Congress Party (SCP) leader Rohit Pawar attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party for being hypocritical over their use of AI.

"The BJP also uses AI, and secondly, the BJP cell has used AI technology for Modi's speech, his designs, Amit Shah, and other big leaders too. If they are saying that it is wrong, then what they used is also wrong," Pawar told ANI on Thursday.

He took a jibe at the government, asking them to restrict the use of AI for everyone, adding, "If you decide no one will use it, then we all will say that let's pl...