Minority Commission calls Dalai Lama’s video ‘tampered’, says ‘foreign power’ is behind misinformation

The National Commission of Minorities (NCM) on April 19 said that the Dalai Lama was “not an ordinary human being but the living Buddha of the 21st century”. The NCM condemned the video of the Buddhist monk being circulated on social media in which he is asking a child to ‘suck his tongue’.

The National Commission of Minorities (NCM) on April 19 said that the Dalai Lama was “not an ordinary human being but the living Buddha of the 21st century”. Condemning the video of the Buddhist monk being circulated on social media in which he is asking a child to ‘suck his tongue’, the NCM said that the video was ‘tampered’ and was a “disinformation campaign” against a holy person that hurt the sentiments of Buddhists.

NCM members said that a “foreign power” was behind this act and they would write to the government of India to inquire about the issue to intervene and block such unidentified postings on the internet. 

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In the meeting, presided over by NCM chairman Iqbal Singh Lalpura, the members unanimously said that the content of the video was “tampered”.

Commission member Rinchen Lhamo said, “This video has been tampered. The parts of this video have been merged in such a way that the video leads to tarnishing of the image of the Dalai Lama.”

She added that a “foreign power” had got this video made and also got it circulated on the internet. “All this is not organic but paid,” she added.