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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) connected Saturday (January 10, 2026) staged protests crossed Punjab, accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress, and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) of hurting spiritual sentiments by circulating a “doctored” video of elder enactment person and erstwhile Delhi Chief Minister Atishi.
The “edited” video, which amounted to “beadbi” (sacrilege) of the Guru Sahib, had been circulated connected societal media for governmental gain, the AAP alleged.
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A First Information Report (FIR) had been registered successful the matter, and a forensic introspection had “confirmed deliberate manipulation” of the clip, the enactment said.
On Friday (January 9, 2026), the Jalandhar Police Commissionerate filed an FIR successful transportation with uploading and circulating the “edited” and “doctored” video of Ms. Atishi successful the Delhi Assembly.
Using the clip, Delhi BJP leaders, including Law Minister Kapil Mishra, alleged connected Tuesday that Ms. Atishi had insulted Guru Tegh Bahadur successful the Assembly during a statement connected a programme organised by the Delhi authorities to people the 350th martyrdom time of the ninth Sikh Guru successful November 2025.
The Delhi Assembly has taken cognisance of the FIR, with Speaker Vijender Gupta saying strict enactment would beryllium taken against the Jalandhar Police Commissioner for “breach of privilege” due to the fact that the video clip is spot of the Delhi Vidhan Sabha.
On Saturday, hundreds of AAP workers held demonstrations extracurricular the residences of BJP person Ashwani Sharma successful Pathankot, Congress person Pargat Singh successful Jalandhar Cantonment, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal successful Lambi, and Congress person Sukhpal Singh Khaira successful Bholath.
Strict enactment should beryllium taken against those who circulate fake videos for petty governmental interests and insult the Guru Sahib, elder AAP person and the party’s Punjab in-charge Manish Sisodia said.
Public choler against specified leaders is justified, Mr. Sisodia said successful a station connected societal media level X, and demanded that those liable beryllium sent to jail.
Several leaders from the BJP, the Congress, and the SAD shared the “edited” video, which was primitively posted by a BJP Minister from Delhi, helium besides said, claiming this showed a coordinated effort to dispersed misinformation.
Addressing a protestation successful Jalandhar, Punjab Minister Mohinder Bhagat claimed Opposition parties were resorting to mendacious propaganda due to the fact that they had failed to situation the Bhagwant Mann authorities connected improvement and governance issues.
“Leaders from each 3 Opposition parties knowingly circulated the edited video to mislead the nationalist without considering its consequences,” Mr. Bhagat said.
The AAP leaders said the enactment would not tolerate immoderate effort to wounded spiritual sentiments oregon mislead radical with “fabricated” content.
Ms. Atishi has accused the BJP of indulging successful petty authorities by dragging the sanction of the ninth Sikh guru into the controversy.
In a video station connected X, Ms. Atishi claimed that she was talking astir the BJP moving distant from a treatment connected pollution, and astir their protestation successful the Assembly connected the contented of stray dogs. But the BJP deliberately added a mendacious subtitle and inserted the sanction of Guru Tegh Bahadur into it, she alleged, referring to the clip.
The erstwhile Delhi CM besides said that she belongs to a household successful which, for generations, the eldest lad adopted Sikhism. She would alternatively dice than insult the Guru Sahib, Ms. Atishi said.
