Over 300 bureaucrats, ex-judges slam BBC; allege its collection ‘motivated’ cost sheet towards PM Modi

By PTI

NEW DELHI: A gaggle of 302 former judges, ex-bureaucrats and veterans on Saturday slammed a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “motivated charge sheet against our leader, a fellow Indian and a patriot” and a mirrored image of its “dyed-in-the-wool negativity and unrelenting prejudice”.

They claimed it’s the archetype of previous British imperialism in India setting itself up as each decide and jury to resurrect Hindu-Muslim tensions that have been overwhelmingly the creation of the British Raj coverage of divide and rule.

The two-part BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question” claims it investigated sure points referring to the 2002 Gujarat riots when Modi was the chief minister of the state. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued instructions for blocking a number of YouTube movies and Twitter posts sharing hyperlinks to the BBC documentary, in response to sources.

READ HERE | Ministry of Information and Broadcasting blocks entry to BBC documentary on 2002 Gujarat riots

This documentary is just not a impartial critique and isn’t about exercising artistic freedom or a divergent, anti-establishment standpoint, a press release signed by 13 former judges, 133 ex-bureaucrats, together with diplomats, and 156 veterans mentioned.

“Not only is the BBC series, judging from what we have seen of it so far, based on delusional and evidently lopsided reporting, but it presumes to question the very basis of the 75-year-old edifice of India’s existence as an independent, democratic nation, a nation which functions according to the will of the people of India,” it mentioned.

Former Rajasthan High Court chief justice Anil Deo Singh, former dwelling secretary L C Goyal, former international secretary Shashank, former RAW chief Sanjeev Tripathi and former NIA director Yogesh Chander Modi are among the many signatories to the letter.

“BBC’s ‘India: The Modi Question’: Delusions of British Imperial Resurrection? Not this time. Not with our leader. Not with India. Never on our watch,” they mentioned.

Their assertion added, “Regardless of whom you, as an individual Indian, might have voted for, the Prime Minister of India is the Prime Minister of your country, our country. We cannot allow just about anyone to run amok with their deliberate bias, their vacuous reasoning…. ” Their assertion alleged that the BBC collection reeks of motivated distortion that’s “as mind-numbingly unsubstantiated as it is nefarious”.

This is demonstrated, it mentioned, vividly by its fully sidelining the core incontrovertible fact that the Supreme Court of India has unambiguously dominated out any position of Narendra Modi within the Gujarat riots of 2002, rejecting allegations of complicity and inaction by the then state authorities headed by him.

The SC had upheld the closure report filed by the Special Investigation Team, appointed by it, after years of investigation.

The assertion famous that the court docket had dismissed allegations made towards Modi and others on the premise of the “ultra-sensational revelations” made by then cops, together with R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt, and by BJP chief Haren Pandya.

The court docket had mentioned it was accomplished to “sensationalise and politicise the matters in issue, although replete with falsehood”, it mentioned.

The BBC documentary has talked about them.

It can be filled with “glaring factual errors” which appear motivated, the assertion alleged.

The assertion famous that the BBC has known as The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) unfair to Muslims, although it’s in truth a legislation to assist minorities dealing with spiritual persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and has nothing to do with Indian Muslims.

It added, “Similarly, Article 370 was a temporary provision of the Constitution of India, never meant to be permanent. Thus, its removal was in no manner a violation of constitutional norms.” It is time to let the BBC know that India doesn’t want “colonial, imperialistic, somnambulistic outsiders” whose major declare to fame has been ‘divide and rule’ underneath the British Raj to show Indians the best way to reside collectively in unity, the assertion mentioned.

“Inclusion is inherent in India. Instead of making a documentary titled, ‘India: The Modi Question’, the BBC should begin by questioning their own bias against Prime Minister Modi  and make a documentary called, ‘BBC: The Ethical Question’.” 

NEW DELHI: A gaggle of 302 former judges, ex-bureaucrats and veterans on Saturday slammed a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “motivated charge sheet against our leader, a fellow Indian and a patriot” and a mirrored image of its “dyed-in-the-wool negativity and unrelenting prejudice”.

They claimed it’s the archetype of previous British imperialism in India setting itself up as each decide and jury to resurrect Hindu-Muslim tensions that have been overwhelmingly the creation of the British Raj coverage of divide and rule.

The two-part BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question” claims it investigated sure points referring to the 2002 Gujarat riots when Modi was the chief minister of the state. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued instructions for blocking a number of YouTube movies and Twitter posts sharing hyperlinks to the BBC documentary, in response to sources.

READ HERE | Ministry of Information and Broadcasting blocks entry to BBC documentary on 2002 Gujarat riots

This documentary is just not a impartial critique and isn’t about exercising artistic freedom or a divergent, anti-establishment standpoint, a press release signed by 13 former judges, 133 ex-bureaucrats, together with diplomats, and 156 veterans mentioned.

“Not only is the BBC series, judging from what we have seen of it so far, based on delusional and evidently lopsided reporting, but it presumes to question the very basis of the 75-year-old edifice of India’s existence as an independent, democratic nation, a nation which functions according to the will of the people of India,” it mentioned.

Former Rajasthan High Court chief justice Anil Deo Singh, former dwelling secretary L C Goyal, former international secretary Shashank, former RAW chief Sanjeev Tripathi and former NIA director Yogesh Chander Modi are among the many signatories to the letter.

“BBC’s ‘India: The Modi Question’: Delusions of British Imperial Resurrection? Not this time. Not with our leader. Not with India. Never on our watch,” they mentioned.

Their assertion added, “Regardless of whom you, as an individual Indian, might have voted for, the Prime Minister of India is the Prime Minister of your country, our country. We cannot allow just about anyone to run amok with their deliberate bias, their vacuous reasoning…. ” Their assertion alleged that the BBC collection reeks of motivated distortion that’s “as mind-numbingly unsubstantiated as it is nefarious”.

This is demonstrated, it mentioned, vividly by its fully sidelining the core incontrovertible fact that the Supreme Court of India has unambiguously dominated out any position of Narendra Modi within the Gujarat riots of 2002, rejecting allegations of complicity and inaction by the then state authorities headed by him.

The SC had upheld the closure report filed by the Special Investigation Team, appointed by it, after years of investigation.

The assertion famous that the court docket had dismissed allegations made towards Modi and others on the premise of the “ultra-sensational revelations” made by then cops, together with R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt, and by BJP chief Haren Pandya.

The court docket had mentioned it was accomplished to “sensationalise and politicise the matters in issue, although replete with falsehood”, it mentioned.

The BBC documentary has talked about them.

It can be filled with “glaring factual errors” which appear motivated, the assertion alleged.

The assertion famous that the BBC has known as The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) unfair to Muslims, although it’s in truth a legislation to assist minorities dealing with spiritual persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and has nothing to do with Indian Muslims.

It added, “Similarly, Article 370 was a temporary provision of the Constitution of India, never meant to be permanent. Thus, its removal was in no manner a violation of constitutional norms.” It is time to let the BBC know that India doesn’t want “colonial, imperialistic, somnambulistic outsiders” whose major declare to fame has been ‘divide and rule’ underneath the British Raj to show Indians the best way to reside collectively in unity, the assertion mentioned.

“Inclusion is inherent in India. Instead of making a documentary titled, ‘India: The Modi Question’, the BBC should begin by questioning their own bias against Prime Minister Modi  and make a documentary called, ‘BBC: The Ethical Question’.”