Ex-BSF man Tej Bahadur Yadav says the viral video is doctored

VARANASI: After a video, showing sacked BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav saying that he can assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi if someone gives Rs 50 crore to him, went viral on social media, he accused the BJP of hatching a conspiracy with a doctored video to tarnish his image.
"This two-year-old video is highly edited to malign my image. I demand a fair probe into it," Yadav told TOI on Tuesday. "I have seen the video shot secretly in 2017 at the house of a Delhi police constable in New Delhi. What the investigating agencies of the government were doing for two years if I had planned a plot to kill PM," he said alleging that the BJP has conspired for it after he moved to the Supreme Court against rejection of his nomination paper for parliamentary poll against Modi from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat.
"No wonder if some more such video clippings peeping into my personal life may surface in future," he said and admitted that he is in the video. “But, I did not speak what is shown in the video clipping,” he added.
Yadav also uploaded a fresh video on his facebook saying that it is a conspiracy of BJP to make the doctored video viral after he moved to the apex court. “I revealed that BJP offered Rs 50 crore to me for not contesting against Modi. As I refused the offer, my words (Rs. 50 crore) were added in the video by editing," he claimed. In his video uploaded on Tuesday he also expressed his fear that he may be killed. He alleged that BJP is conspiring to eliminate him. “The BJP will be responsible if I am killed,” he said in the video.
He is presently in Varanasi to campaign for Samajwadi Party candidate Shalini Yadav.
Yadav on Monday moved the Supreme Court against rejection of his nomination filed from Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. He had filed his papers as an Independent on April 24 and later as a Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate on April 29.
The district election officer (DEO) had rejected his nomination on May 1, citing that his papers were not accompanied by the certificate issued in prescribed manner by the ECI to the effect that he has not been dismissed for corruption or disloyalty as prescribed in a notice.
While in BSF, Yadav had posted videos on social media in 2017 that showed him complaining about the bad quality of food served to the jawans at his camp along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir. After the video went viral, he was dismissed from service.