In the wake of Ajit Pawar’s shocking passing, NCP Maharashtra chief Sunil Tatkare has thrown down the gauntlet against AI-fueled misinformation. His February 18 letter from Mumbai exposes a sinister trend: post-demise, factions are peddling doctored audio and video using the late leader’s visage to sow confusion.
Driven by self-serving motives, these fakes flood digital spaces, masquerading as authentic statements from the former Deputy CM and NCP national president. Tatkare’s message is unequivocal—don’t buy into it—and promises cyber act invocations against offenders who persist.
The subtext unmistakably nods to Rohit Pawar’s media blitz, featuring AI demos on giant screens at press conferences nationwide. His interrogations into the accident’s anatomy—causation, errors, and oversights—have evidently irked the party establishment.
Detailing the perfidy, the letter decries the gross indignity of falsifying a revered figure’s words for propaganda. Ajit Pawar, a colossus of Maharashtra polity, deserves reverence, not posthumous slander. Such tactics poison public sentiment and corrode democratic ethos.
NCP demands instant cessation, backed by threats of unyielding legal pursuit. This confrontation illuminates AI’s double-edged sword in politics: innovation turned instrument of deceit. For Maharashtra’s body politic, still mourning, reclaiming narrative control is urgent. Observers see this as a pivotal moment in curbing tech abuses, with NCP leading the charge.