New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- The Congress on Sunday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over a purported video posted on the X handle of the ruling party's Assam unit, claiming it shows the 'targeted point-blank murder of minorities' and the judiciary must act with no leniency shown in the matter.

The now-deleted video showed Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma purportedly taking aim with a rifle and firing a shot at two people - one wearing a skull cap and the other with a beard, with "point-blank shot" as the caption.

The video showed what appears to be original footage of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma handling an air rifle interspersed with videos created by artificial intelligence, showing bullets from the air rifle ...