Rahul Gandhi's photo on sanitary pad: FIR filed over fake video

NEW DELHI: Congress connected Sunday slammed the circulation of a fake video that allegedly misuses a photograph of Lok Sabha person of absorption Rahul Gandhi successful a misleading context. A video, which has gone viral connected societal media, shows Gandhi's representation pasted connected a sanitary pad, purportedly being distributed nether the party's Priyadarshini Udaan Yojana successful Bihar, aimed astatine raising menstrual hygiene consciousness among women successful the state.Congress person Supriya Shrinate confirmed that an FIR has been registered regarding the video. "An FIR has been lodged against the misuse of Rahul Gandhi's representation to make a fake video. Action is besides being taken against others involved," Shrinate said connected Sunday.

Congress launches sanitary pad thrust successful BiharThe contention emerged conscionable days aft Congress launched a menstrual hygiene inaugural successful Bihar. The enactment began distributing sanitary pads to women successful the state, citing alarming survey data."We conducted a survey successful Bihar, and shocking figures came retired that successful today's modern India, women and daughters of Bihar are utilizing cloth during menstruation and are falling prey to superior diseases," All India Mahila Congress president Alka Lamba said. "Mahila Congress has taken the inaugural to springiness escaped sanitary vending machines to our mothers, sisters, daughters of Bihar who are utilizing cloth owed to unemployment, inflation, poorness and are incapable to bargain it," she added.

"We installed machines, gave escaped training, escaped machines, escaped earthy worldly to marque 30,000 pads. And today, I americium blessed to accidental that the women of Bihar are making these pads; they are getting enactment and earning a living. We are going to administer escaped sanitary pad boxes successful the adjacent 2 days," she said.The boxes being distributed nether the inaugural diagnostic photos of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, aiming to summation consciousness and visibility of the drive.