Manoj Bajpayee denies political ties after fake campaign video goes viral

The battle of Bihar is getting intense, and colourful with the approaching assembly elections. The Padma Shri awardee, actor Manoj Bajpayee recently found himself at the centre of a poll campaign video doctored by the IT wing of Rashtriya Janata Dal. After the video circulated, the actor slammed the creators of the video for unlawfully using his personality and imagery without his consent, for electoral gains and swinging the voters.

Manoj Bajpayee slams fake video endorsing political party

Tejashwi Yadav, the son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, took to his X, formerly Twitter, and shared the now deleted doctored video which aims to woo the voters in the favour of Rashtriya Janata Dal. Calling out the party for their unethical use of the video, which Manoj shot for a streaming platform, the actor penned a long note quoting the original tweet of Tejashwi Yadav, the Chief Minister (CM) candidate from Mahagathbandhan.

He wrote, “I would like to publicly state that I have no association or allegiance with any political party. The video being circulated is a fake, patched-up edit of an ad I did for PrimeVideoIN. I sincerely appeal to everyone sharing it to stop spreading such distorted content and urge people not to engage with or encourage such misleading content."

I would like to publicly state that I have no association or allegiance with any political party. The video being circulated is a fake, patched-up edit of an ad I did for @PrimeVideoIN. I sincerely appeal to everyone sharing it to stop spreading such distorted content and urge… https://t.co/teeCJLhgvI — manoj bajpayee (@BajpayeeManoj) October 16, 2025

The upcoming election in Bihar is for the 18th Legislative Assembly, and will be fought on 243 seats. The elections will be conducted in two phases: 6 November 2025 and 11 November 2025.

This video also comes at a time when several celebrities have taken steps to protect their image and personality rights legally. Recently, Hrithik Roshan obtained legal protection against the unauthorized use of his persona for commercial purposes. Similar actions have been taken by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, and filmmaker Karan Johar.

Manoj Bajpayee`s upcoming movies

On the workfront, Manoj Bajpayee was last seen in the Netflix film Inspector Zende, where he played a determined police officer who captured the infamous criminal Charles Sobhraj. He is all set to team up with Ram Gopal Varma for supernatural action-comedy Police Station Mein Bhoot. Apart from this, he will also reprise his role of Srikant Tiwari for Family Man season 3.