UP Congress leader Nasimuddin Siddiqui files police complaint against Sambit Patra, Tarek Fatah

Senior UP Congress leader and MLC Nasimuddin Siddiqui has lodged a police complaint against BJP‘s Sambit Patra and Canada-based Pakistani-origin author Tarek Fatah for allegedly sharing a fake video on Twitter to malign his and the party’s image.

Patra and Fatah shared a video on Twitter, targeting Siddiqui. In the video, a man is seen and heard saying: “First we are Muslims and then Hindustanis”.

The man in question is, however, not Siddiqui but Samajwadi Party leader Maviya Ali, and the video is from 2017.

In the video, Ali is saying: “At first we are Muslims, and only then we are Hindustanis. If any law is in conflict with Islam, then we will follow Islam. We are not ready to accept that Constitution, that law (which is against Islam). We are not loyal to this country. In fact, we are the owners of this country. Only dogs are loyal and we are not dogs.”

Sharing the video on Twitter, Patra quoted Ali’s speech and even tagged former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and party’s general secretary in-charge of Eastern UP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

Fatah, while tweeting the video, posted: “Indian @INCIndia Congress leader Nasimuddin Siddiqui unashamedly rejects all Indian laws not in conformity with Islamic Sharia.”

“Tarek Fatah and Sambit Patra have posted a fake video on Facebook and Twitter…I want to make it clear that it is neither my image nor my voice in the video. The video is completely fake and has been shared to damage my reputation and that of my family and party,” Siddiqui said in the complaint addressed to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Lucknow.