Union Minister Anurag Thakur on May 1 said the Congress was using all types of tricks, including deepfakes, for its propaganda.

He refuted the Congress’ charge that democracy was under threat or that reservations would be taken away by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.

“It was during the Congress regime that democracy was finished by imposing Emergency,” Thakur told at the Lucknow airport.

The Minister is in Uttar Pradesh to attend several programmes and campaign rallies. “Congress is using fear, confusion, rumour, deepfake and all kinds of tricks. The way foreign powers try to destabilise any country, the Congress is using all kinds of tricks for its propaganda,” he said.