North Lakhimpur, April 17 -- The Congress candidate for 12 Lakhimpur HPC Uday Sankar Hazarika has said that he was made a victim of a deep fake video created by people who had been scared of his increasing popularity.

He made this remark following the surfacing of an "obscene" video on Hazarika getting circulated in the social media.

Addressing a press meet in Nowboicha on Tuesday night, the Congress candidate refuted the claim made in that video terming it to be a very execrable and vile act to malign his image in the public domain on the eve of the poll.

"The video is the work of the most vile and execrable act of people who are scared of my popularity and they made it to publicly malign my image. It is a work of deep fake where the ...