New Delhi: Barely a month and a half before the Bihar Assembly election — ostensibly the most crucial one of 2025 — and the Congress is on a rampage, walking right into one controversy after another. With three high-profile missteps in just the first half of September, the party seems to be handing the BJP more political ammunition than it can muster itself.

The latest row erupted when the Bihar Congress circulated an AI-generated video mocking PM Modi. The 36-second clip depicted a Modi lookalike being rebuked by a character resembling his late mother, Hiraben Modi. What was perhaps conceived as satire quickly drew sharp criticism. BJP leaders slammed it as an “insult to all mothers,” with Union minister Anurag Thakur calling it a “shameful descent into mudslinging.”

Though the state Congress promised an internal inquiry, the defence from party leaders was muddled. Senior Congress figure Pawan Khera argued that politicians must “handle the opposition’s sense of humour.” But humour, especially in politics, is rarely without consequence.

The video controversy came hard on the heels of........

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