Overview

• Under the Priyadarshini Udaan Yojana, Congress distributed over 5 lakh sanitary pad kits in Bihar featuring Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi’s images before the morphed clip emerged.
• On July 5 a doctored video purporting to show Rahul Gandhi’s photo pasted inside a pad circulated widely, prompting Congress leaders to deny its authenticity and lodge FIRs.
• The Indian Youth Congress has opened legal cases under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and IT Act in Karnataka, Delhi, Telangana and other states against individuals sharing the clip.
• Telangana police registered an FIR against comedian Ratan Ranjan for creating and circulating the morphed image, and investigations across jurisdictions continue with no independent proof of the photo-on-pad claim.
• BJP spokespeople have decried the pad drive as an insult to women, while Congress frames its counter-offensive as defending women’s dignity against political misogyny.