India, Sept. 12 -- A major political row broke out Friday after the Bihar Congress posted an AI-generated video showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's late mother Heeraben Modi with the BJP calling it "shameful" and "disgusting" and accusing the rival party of crossing moral lines and exploiting the memory of a deceased woman for political gain.

The video, shared on Congress's official X handle, digitally recreated Heeraben Modi chastising her son during a dream sequence in the context of earlier controversy regarding her in the ongoing Bihar election campaign. Slamming the video, party leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain called it "shameful and disgraceful". "She is no longer alive. Putting words in the mouth of a departed mother is inhumane,...