Lucknow: After Bhojpuri singer Pawan Singh dropped out from the polls in West Bengal, BJP MP Upendra Singh Rawat has now opted out of the Lok Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh within the wake of controversial movies surfacing on the social media.
Rawat, the sitting MP from Barabanki, was initially within the first listing of BJP candidates for the upcoming basic election.
However he was quickly on the backfoot after the obscene movies purportedly that includes him appeared on-line on 3 March. ThePrint couldn’t independently confirm the authenticity of the movies.
Inside hours of the purported movies going viral, Rawat lodged an FIR within the Kotwali police station of Barabanki on Sunday night time.
Within the FIR, a duplicate of which is with ThePrint, Rawat’s private secretary Dinesh Chandra Rawat has stated that “an objectionable video is being publicized towards the MP which is an edited video via which his picture will be tarnished.”
The FIR was lodged towards an unknown individual beneath Sections 419 (dishonest), 501 (printing or engraving matter identified to be defamatory) of IPC and Sections 66 D, 67 and 43 of the IT Act.
Later, Rawat issued a video assertion Monday claiming that “the movies going viral have been generated by Deepfake” and that “they have been edited” as he alleged a political conspiracy behind the act
— Upendra Singh Rawat (@upendrasinghMP) March 4, 2024
He additionally tweeted saying that he received’t struggle any election in his public life until confirmed harmless.
मेरा एक एडिटेड वीडियो वायरल किया जा रहा है जो DeepFake AI तकनीक द्वारा जेनरेटेड है, जिसकी FIR मैंने दर्ज करा दी है,इसके संदर्भ में मैंने मा॰ राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष जी से निवेदन किया है कि इसकी जाँच करवायी जाये। जबतक मैं निर्दोष साबित नहीं होता सार्वजनिक जीवन में कोई चुनाव नहीं लड़ूँगा
— Upendra Singh Rawat (@upendrasinghMP) March 4, 2024
ThePrint appears to be like on the rise and former controversies of the first-time MP from Uttar Pradesh.
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SC chief who began as MLA
An MA diploma holder from J.N. PG Faculty Barabanki (2001) and an LLB from DAV college, Lucknow (1999), Rawat comes from the scheduled caste and have become an MLA from Zaidpur in Barabanki in 2017.
Within the course of, he had defeated senior Congress chief P.L. Punia’s son Tanuj Punia and BSP’s Meera Gautam who got here second and third, respectively.
Two years on, Rawat changed Priyanka Singh Rawat because the BJP’s candidate in Barabanki, a reserved seat for members of SCs, in 2019. Whereas Priyanka Rawat was instrumental in guaranteeing MLA’s ticket for him from Zaidpur meeting constituency in 2019, the BJP excessive command denied her a ticket from Barabanki Lok Sabha seat and as a substitute fielded Upendra Rawat. Priyanka Rawat had damaged down into tears quickly after she was denied a ticket in March 2019 and her supporters had protested on the Lucknow-Ayodhya street.
Rawat, nonetheless, went on to defeat Ram Sagar Rawat, his nearest rival from the Samajwadi Get together, by a margin of over 1,10,000 votes.
In his 2019 ballot affidavit, he declared that he owned two plots in Badel village of Barabanki and different immoveable and moveable property amounting Rs 1,12 crore and Rs 1.48 lakh, respectively.
Through the campaigning for the 2017 meeting election, an FIR was lodged towards him in Barabanki’s Asandra police station beneath 171 (h) (unlawful funds in reference to an election) and 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by a public servant) of the IPC and Part 127 (a) (violation of restrictions on the printing of pamphlets, posters, and many others) of the Illustration of the Individuals Act for allegedly luring voters by distributing lunch packets.
In October 2022, Rawat was embroiled in an argument after a purported audio of a dialog between him and an assistant engineer went viral during which the previous claims that he can scold and beat up individuals whereas allegedly hurling abuses on the latter.
Later, Rawat had stated that he was upset with the assistant engineer for failing to organize an estimate for the restore of a broken bridge in Kaanhupur village of Trivediganj block of Barabanki regardless of writing five-six occasions to the division.
Within the audio, Rawat was purportedly additionally heard saying that “he would lock up the official’s workplace and sit outdoors it” as a result of as a result of his act, “an MLA was denied a ticket”.
He can be heard saying that he bought a 20.5 km street accredited beneath the PM Gramin Sadak Yojana however the official was finishing up “a fraud.”
Sanjay Gupta, the assistant engineer in query, had submitted an utility searching for depart to his division and wrote a letter to the police for serving to him with safety.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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