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  • BBC Documentary on PM Modi: AK Antony’s son quits Congress, Tharoor attracts flak for remarks

    By Online Desk

    Chennai: Senior Congress chief and former Defence Minister AK Antony’s son Anil Okay Antony on Wednesday stop the Congress social gathering hours after he denounced the BBC over its documentary analyzing the position of Prime Minister Narendra Modi within the 2002 Gujarat riots. 

    Anil stop as convenor of the digital media cell of the Congress unit in Kerala and because the nationwide coordinator of the All India Congress Committee’s (AICC) social media and digital communications cell. 

    The announcement got here on Wednesday morning after social media outrage in opposition to him for his veiled help to Modi when the opposition was taking up the PM and the ruling BJP for banning the documentary  ‘India: The Modi Question.’ 

    On Tuesday, whereas college students at some distinguished schools in his dwelling state Kerala had been watching the documentary in defiance of the federal government ban, Anil took to Twitter to spell out that regardless of his “large differences” with BJP, he felt that these in India “placing views of” BBC, “a state-sponsored channel with a long history of prejudices against India would set a “harmful priority” and “will undermine the nation’s sovereignty.”

    The Tweet triggered a backlash apparently even from his personal social gathering in Kerala. Finally, the son of a frontrunner who had a aptitude for quitting selected to announce his choice to exit from the Congress.

    Well earlier than the uproar in opposition to Anil might subside, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor drew the ire of Twitterati as he questioned the timing of the documentary which, he mentioned, comes 21 years after the Gujarat riots.

    “This (Gujarat riots) happened 21 years ago and it is a matter the Supreme Court has ruled on. The tragedy is something that all Indians, including Muslims, feel we now should put behind us,” he reportedly mentioned. His assertion ought to have warmed the cockles of BJP supporters’ hearts.

    Tharoor, nevertheless, questioned the BJP authorities’s choice to dam the screening of the documentary. “Why would you give the British the power to disturb you?” he reacted.

    Tharoor additionally dismissed Anil Antony’s view that the documentary would hurt India’s sovereignty. He mentioned that the argument that the BBC documentary would hurt India’s sovereignty is unconvincing.

    Chennai: Senior Congress chief and former Defence Minister AK Antony’s son Anil Okay Antony on Wednesday stop the Congress social gathering hours after he denounced the BBC over its documentary analyzing the position of Prime Minister Narendra Modi within the 2002 Gujarat riots. 

    Anil stop as convenor of the digital media cell of the Congress unit in Kerala and because the nationwide coordinator of the All India Congress Committee’s (AICC) social media and digital communications cell. 

    The announcement got here on Wednesday morning after social media outrage in opposition to him for his veiled help to Modi when the opposition was taking up the PM and the ruling BJP for banning the documentary  ‘India: The Modi Question.’ 
    On Tuesday, whereas college students at some distinguished schools in his dwelling state Kerala had been watching the documentary in defiance of the federal government ban, Anil took to Twitter to spell out that regardless of his “large differences” with BJP, he felt that these in India “placing views of” BBC, “a state-sponsored channel with a long history of prejudices against India would set a “harmful priority” and “will undermine the nation’s sovereignty.”

    The Tweet triggered a backlash apparently even from his personal social gathering in Kerala. Finally, the son of a frontrunner who had a aptitude for quitting selected to announce his choice to exit from the Congress.

    Well earlier than the uproar in opposition to Anil might subside, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor drew the ire of Twitterati as he questioned the timing of the documentary which, he mentioned, comes 21 years after the Gujarat riots.

    “This (Gujarat riots) happened 21 years ago and it is a matter the Supreme Court has ruled on. The tragedy is something that all Indians, including Muslims, feel we now should put behind us,” he reportedly mentioned. His assertion ought to have warmed the cockles of BJP supporters’ hearts.

    Tharoor, nevertheless, questioned the BJP authorities’s choice to dam the screening of the documentary. “Why would you give the British the power to disturb you?” he reacted.

    Tharoor additionally dismissed Anil Antony’s view that the documentary would hurt India’s sovereignty. He mentioned that the argument that the BBC documentary would hurt India’s sovereignty is unconvincing.

  • BBC documentary: Kerala Police alert after intel warns of violent protests

    Express News Service

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state intelligence wing has forewarned critical legislation and order points in reference to the screening of BBC documentary ‘Modi: The India Question’ prompting the state police to ramp up safety preparations. The intelligence stories collated from the districts strongly urged that violent protests may erupt throughout or after the screening of the documentary. The stories, the sources mentioned, talked about a number of districts the place it may flip extra violent and can lead to a legislation and order complication.

    The Congress and the left outfits had introduced that they’ll maintain screenings of the controversial documentary, whose hyperlinks had been reportedly eliminated by YouTube and Twitter on the directive issued by the Central authorities below the IT Rules, 2021. The BJP had expressed its opposition to screening the documentary and dubbed it as an anti-national act.

    People watching the documentary screened by Youth Congress employees at Kuttichira in Kozhikode on Tuesday | E Gokul

    Police sources mentioned the Police Headquarters issued a transparent message to the personnel to take all precautionary measures to preempt flare-up of violence of any kind. The personnel of the armed battalions have additionally been mobilised, whereas the intelligence wing has additionally opened its personal channels to maintain a tab on the developments.

    The sources added that the station home officers (SHO) have been requested to make sure that there is no such thing as a direct bodily confrontation between the organisers and protestors.

    DOCUMENTARY NOT AGAINST COUNTRY: SUDHAKARAN
    Stating that the documentary was not towards the nation, state Congress president Okay Sudhakaran dismissed Anil Antony’s considerations. He insisted that the occasion will go forward with its screening. Without naming Antony, Sudhakaran mentioned the Congress doesn’t have any affiliation with somebody’s assertion.

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state intelligence wing has forewarned critical legislation and order points in reference to the screening of BBC documentary ‘Modi: The India Question’ prompting the state police to ramp up safety preparations. The intelligence stories collated from the districts strongly urged that violent protests may erupt throughout or after the screening of the documentary. The stories, the sources mentioned, talked about a number of districts the place it may flip extra violent and can lead to a legislation and order complication.

    The Congress and the left outfits had introduced that they’ll maintain screenings of the controversial documentary, whose hyperlinks had been reportedly eliminated by YouTube and Twitter on the directive issued by the Central authorities below the IT Rules, 2021. The BJP had expressed its opposition to screening the documentary and dubbed it as an anti-national act.

    People watching the documentary screened by Youth Congress employees at Kuttichira in Kozhikode on Tuesday | E Gokul

    Police sources mentioned the Police Headquarters issued a transparent message to the personnel to take all precautionary measures to preempt flare-up of violence of any kind. The personnel of the armed battalions have additionally been mobilised, whereas the intelligence wing has additionally opened its personal channels to maintain a tab on the developments.

    The sources added that the station home officers (SHO) have been requested to make sure that there is no such thing as a direct bodily confrontation between the organisers and protestors.

    DOCUMENTARY NOT AGAINST COUNTRY: SUDHAKARAN
    Stating that the documentary was not towards the nation, state Congress president Okay Sudhakaran dismissed Anil Antony’s considerations. He insisted that the occasion will go forward with its screening. Without naming Antony, Sudhakaran mentioned the Congress doesn’t have any affiliation with somebody’s assertion.

  • Tension in JNU over screening of BBC documentary on PM Modi

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The JNU college students’ union (JNUSU) couldn’t maintain the proposed screening of a controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a scholar outfit alleging that the varsity’s administration snapped energy and Internet connections on the union’s workplace.

    Students, nonetheless, downloaded the documentary on their cell phones by way of a web-based software to look at and share it, All India Students Association (AISA) nationwide president N Sai Balaji claimed.

    Stone pelting was reported on the college campus within the nationwide capital when the documentary was being screened. The essential gate has been closed by the administration.

    Stones and even bricks have been hurled at JNU Students’ Union officer bearers. JNUSU president Aishi Ghosh claimed stones have been thrown at college students and JNUSU members who have been watching the documentary. One individual has reportedly been injured within the incident.

    Following the incident, the Left-wing scholar group held a protest on the University campus, shouting slogans towards ABVP and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). 

    Meanwhile, two members related to the ABVP have been nabbed by the scholars for allegedly pelting stones. They have been to be handed over to the Delhi Police at Vasant Kunj Police station.

    However, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South West) mentioned that “No such incident has been reported to us so far.” 

    “Around 8:50 pm, the university administration cut off the electricity supply of the JNUSU office, which resulted in the delay in screening,” mentioned one of many college students. He additionally alleged that the Wifi companies of the venue have been additionally stopped by the administration. 

    Students collect within the campus after the ability shutdown. (Photo | EPS)

    After ready for half an hour, the coed union determined to share the Quick Response (QR) code of the documentary among the many members and seen it on their cell phones in a public gathering. 

    Attacking Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarti Parishad (ABVP), the JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh mentioned, “If ABVP had a problem with screening, then they should also hold a parallel screening or debate on it.” 

    Ghosh additional added that the nexus of University administration and ABVP is vanishing within the debate and dialogue tradition on the campus.

    “They can cut off the light and Internet connection but not our resistance. Instead of one screen, now this screen will be watched on multiple screens,” she added. 

    ALSO READ | Top Indian college bans screening of BBC sequence on PM Modi

    The authorities had on Friday directed social media platforms Twitter and YouTube to dam hyperlinks to the documentary titled “India: The Modi Question”.

    The Ministry of External Affairs has trashed the documentary as a “propaganda piece” that lacks objectivity and displays a colonial mindset.

    However, opposition events have slammed the federal government’s transfer to dam entry to the documentary.

    Balaji, who was current for the screening, claimed that some college students had downloaded the documentary on their mobiles and different units.

    “They (the JNU administration) have cut off the power and Internet. We shared the documentary with other students and are watching it together,” Balaji mentioned. Balaji additionally claimed that there have been police personnel in civil garments roaming on the campus. However, there was no rapid police response.

    Earlier within the night, the University had heightened the safety across the campus to stop any type of violence. Adding to this, the Delhi police additionally deployed additional safety personnel to take care of the legislation and order scenario on the University.

    According to a police official, round 50 police personnel together with University safety guards have been deployed on the campus.

    (With inputs from PTI) 

    NEW DELHI: The JNU college students’ union (JNUSU) couldn’t maintain the proposed screening of a controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a scholar outfit alleging that the varsity’s administration snapped energy and Internet connections on the union’s workplace.

    Students, nonetheless, downloaded the documentary on their cell phones by way of a web-based software to look at and share it, All India Students Association (AISA) nationwide president N Sai Balaji claimed.

    Stone pelting was reported on the college campus within the nationwide capital when the documentary was being screened. The essential gate has been closed by the administration.

    Stones and even bricks have been hurled at JNU Students’ Union officer bearers. JNUSU president Aishi Ghosh claimed stones have been thrown at college students and JNUSU members who have been watching the documentary. One individual has reportedly been injured within the incident.

    Following the incident, the Left-wing scholar group held a protest on the University campus, shouting slogans towards ABVP and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). 

    Meanwhile, two members related to the ABVP have been nabbed by the scholars for allegedly pelting stones. They have been to be handed over to the Delhi Police at Vasant Kunj Police station.

    However, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South West) mentioned that “No such incident has been reported to us so far.” 

    “Around 8:50 pm, the university administration cut off the electricity supply of the JNUSU office, which resulted in the delay in screening,” mentioned one of many college students. He additionally alleged that the Wifi companies of the venue have been additionally stopped by the administration. 

    Students collect within the campus after the ability shutdown. (Photo | EPS)

    After ready for half an hour, the coed union determined to share the Quick Response (QR) code of the documentary among the many members and seen it on their cell phones in a public gathering. 

    Attacking Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarti Parishad (ABVP), the JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh mentioned, “If ABVP had a problem with screening, then they should also hold a parallel screening or debate on it.” 

    Ghosh additional added that the nexus of University administration and ABVP is vanishing within the debate and dialogue tradition on the campus.

    “They can cut off the light and Internet connection but not our resistance. Instead of one screen, now this screen will be watched on multiple screens,” she added. 

    ALSO READ | Top Indian college bans screening of BBC sequence on PM Modi

    The authorities had on Friday directed social media platforms Twitter and YouTube to dam hyperlinks to the documentary titled “India: The Modi Question”.

    The Ministry of External Affairs has trashed the documentary as a “propaganda piece” that lacks objectivity and displays a colonial mindset.

    However, opposition events have slammed the federal government’s transfer to dam entry to the documentary.

    Balaji, who was current for the screening, claimed that some college students had downloaded the documentary on their mobiles and different units.

    “They (the JNU administration) have cut off the power and Internet. We shared the documentary with other students and are watching it together,” Balaji mentioned. Balaji additionally claimed that there have been police personnel in civil garments roaming on the campus. However, there was no rapid police response.

    Earlier within the night, the University had heightened the safety across the campus to stop any type of violence. Adding to this, the Delhi police additionally deployed additional safety personnel to take care of the legislation and order scenario on the University.

    According to a police official, round 50 police personnel together with University safety guards have been deployed on the campus.

    (With inputs from PTI) 

  • Top Indian college bans screening of BBC sequence on PM Modi

    By AFP

    NEW DELHI: A prime Indian college has banned the screening of a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s position throughout the lethal 2002 sectarian riots after his authorities tried to dam its unfold on-line.

    The broadcaster’s programme alleges that the Hindu nationalist Modi, premier of Gujarat state on the time, ordered police to show a blind eye to an orgy of violence there that left a minimum of 1,000 folks lifeless, most of them minority Muslims.

    Students on the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi had deliberate to display the documentary on Tuesday, defying efforts by Indian authorities to limit its displaying.

    But a memo from the college’s registrar late on Monday ordered college students to cancel the occasion and warned it might take “strict disciplinary action” if its edict was disobeyed. “Such an unauthorised activity may disturb peace and harmony of the university campus,” it mentioned.

    Modi’s authorities has been accused of stifling dissent by free-speech activists and opposition leaders for years.

    On Saturday it used emergency powers below India’s controversial info expertise legal guidelines to dam the documentary from being shared on social media.

    Government adviser Kanchan Gupta slammed the sequence as “hostile propaganda and anti-India garbage” disguised as a documentary.

    India’s order to social media platforms to dam hyperlinks to the documentary “flagrantly contradicts the country’s stated commitment to democratic ideals”, Beh Lih Yi of the Committee to Protect Journalists mentioned in a press release on Monday.

    The 2002 riots in Gujarat started after 59 Hindu pilgrims have been killed in a fireplace on a prepare. Thirty-one Muslims have been convicted of prison conspiracy and homicide over that incident.

    The two-part BBC documentary cited a beforehand categorised British international ministry report quoting unnamed sources saying that Modi met senior cops and “ordered them not to intervene” within the assaults on Muslims that adopted. It additionally mentioned the violence was “politically motivated” and the purpose “was to purge Muslims from Hindu areas.”

    The riots have been inconceivable “without the climate of impunity created by the State Government… Narendra Modi is directly responsible,” it concluded.

    Modi ran Gujarat from 2001 till his election as prime minister in 2014 and briefly confronted a journey ban by the United States over the violence.

    An investigation workforce appointed by the Indian Supreme Court to probe the position of Modi and others within the violence mentioned in 2012 it didn’t discover any proof to prosecute him.

    NEW DELHI: A prime Indian college has banned the screening of a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s position throughout the lethal 2002 sectarian riots after his authorities tried to dam its unfold on-line.

    The broadcaster’s programme alleges that the Hindu nationalist Modi, premier of Gujarat state on the time, ordered police to show a blind eye to an orgy of violence there that left a minimum of 1,000 folks lifeless, most of them minority Muslims.

    Students on the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi had deliberate to display the documentary on Tuesday, defying efforts by Indian authorities to limit its displaying.

    But a memo from the college’s registrar late on Monday ordered college students to cancel the occasion and warned it might take “strict disciplinary action” if its edict was disobeyed. “Such an unauthorised activity may disturb peace and harmony of the university campus,” it mentioned.

    Modi’s authorities has been accused of stifling dissent by free-speech activists and opposition leaders for years.

    On Saturday it used emergency powers below India’s controversial info expertise legal guidelines to dam the documentary from being shared on social media.

    Government adviser Kanchan Gupta slammed the sequence as “hostile propaganda and anti-India garbage” disguised as a documentary.

    India’s order to social media platforms to dam hyperlinks to the documentary “flagrantly contradicts the country’s stated commitment to democratic ideals”, Beh Lih Yi of the Committee to Protect Journalists mentioned in a press release on Monday.

    The 2002 riots in Gujarat started after 59 Hindu pilgrims have been killed in a fireplace on a prepare. Thirty-one Muslims have been convicted of prison conspiracy and homicide over that incident.

    The two-part BBC documentary cited a beforehand categorised British international ministry report quoting unnamed sources saying that Modi met senior cops and “ordered them not to intervene” within the assaults on Muslims that adopted. It additionally mentioned the violence was “politically motivated” and the purpose “was to purge Muslims from Hindu areas.”

    The riots have been inconceivable “without the climate of impunity created by the State Government… Narendra Modi is directly responsible,” it concluded.

    Modi ran Gujarat from 2001 till his election as prime minister in 2014 and briefly confronted a journey ban by the United States over the violence.

    An investigation workforce appointed by the Indian Supreme Court to probe the position of Modi and others within the violence mentioned in 2012 it didn’t discover any proof to prosecute him.

  • ‘Not aware of documentary, however…’: US on BBC documentary on PM Modi

    As opposition events attempt to nook the Centre for blocking a number of YouTube movies and Twitter posts sharing hyperlinks to the controversial BBC documentary ‘India: The Modi Question’, we elevate these questions on the present: Is a ban on BBC documentary an overreaction? Is BBC documentary pushing a faux propaganda? Should govt rebut the documentary as an alternative of banning it?

    Watch as panelists debate these and extra on the present.

  • CPM youth wing says BBC documentary on PM Modi shall be proven in Kerala

    By PTI

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: DYFI, the youth wing of the ruling CPIM in Kerala, on Tuesday introduced that the controversial BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question” could be proven within the state.

    The announcement, on its Facebook web page, by the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) comes within the wake of the Centre’s instructions to dam a number of YouTube movies and Twitter posts sharing hyperlinks to the documentary.

    The two-part BBC documentary, which claims it investigated sure points referring to the 2002 Gujarat riots when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the chief minister of that state, has been trashed by the Ministry of External Affairs as a “propaganda piece” that lacked objectivity and mirrored a “colonial mindset”.

    The instructions on blocking entry have been understood to have been issued by Apurva Chandra, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Friday utilizing the emergency powers below the IT Rules, 2021.

    ALSO READ| Despite advisory, JNUSU to display BBC documentary on Modi at univ 

    The central authorities’s transfer has acquired sharp criticism from opposition events just like the Congress and the TMC for imposing “censorship”.

    At the identical time a gaggle of 302 former judges, ex-bureaucrats and veterans slammed the BBC documentary as a “motivated charge sheet against our leader, a fellow Indian and a patriot” and a mirrored image of “dyed-in-the-wool negativity and unrelenting prejudice”.

    ALSO READ| Students group screens BBC documentary on PM Modi at Hyderabad varsity

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: DYFI, the youth wing of the ruling CPIM in Kerala, on Tuesday introduced that the controversial BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question” could be proven within the state.

    The announcement, on its Facebook web page, by the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) comes within the wake of the Centre’s instructions to dam a number of YouTube movies and Twitter posts sharing hyperlinks to the documentary.

    The two-part BBC documentary, which claims it investigated sure points referring to the 2002 Gujarat riots when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the chief minister of that state, has been trashed by the Ministry of External Affairs as a “propaganda piece” that lacked objectivity and mirrored a “colonial mindset”.

    The instructions on blocking entry have been understood to have been issued by Apurva Chandra, Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Friday utilizing the emergency powers below the IT Rules, 2021.

    ALSO READ| Despite advisory, JNUSU to display BBC documentary on Modi at univ 

    The central authorities’s transfer has acquired sharp criticism from opposition events just like the Congress and the TMC for imposing “censorship”.

    At the identical time a gaggle of 302 former judges, ex-bureaucrats and veterans slammed the BBC documentary as a “motivated charge sheet against our leader, a fellow Indian and a patriot” and a mirrored image of “dyed-in-the-wool negativity and unrelenting prejudice”.

    ALSO READ| Students group screens BBC documentary on PM Modi at Hyderabad varsity

  • Bar Association writes to Amit Shah for probe into ‘worldwide conspiracy’ angle in BBC documentary 

    Express News Service

    DELHI: All India Bar Association Chairman and Senior Advocate Dr Adish C Aggarwala has written a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah requesting him to order 360 diploma probe into a world conspiracy angle in BBC’s latest documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

    AIBA’s chairman whereas wholeheartedly welcoming authorities’s transfer to dam YouTube channels and Twitter handles spreading this documentary within the letter has hunted for structure of an investigation group comprising of retired SC decide, jurists and investigators. 

    Aggarwala in his letter has mentioned that the invisible arms behind this documentary and the minds that have gotten collectively to sew an imaginary story with discredited and rejected proof needs to be recognized and delivered to the ebook.

    “This so-called documentary has nothing new to show or speak of. Much of its contents had been thoroughly circulated and discussed in public, considered and rejected by various courts, including the Supreme Court of India. The 20-year-old Gujarat riot has several layers to it, but this BBC tries to have a linear narrative, and quite maliciously tries to pin down our Prime Minister and the nation itself on the mat,” the letter to the Home Minister states. 

    Along with a probe, AIBA within the letter has additionally prayed for writing to the UK govt to establish individuals behind this manufacturing, probe their background and additional cooperate with the Government of India in accessing the so-called paperwork in possession of the BBC and maintain inquiry with individuals who had conceived, produced and unfold it the world over.

    On Sunday, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju whereas taking up the malicious campaigns had mentioned that some individuals take into account BBC above SC. Taking to twitter, Rijiju whereas levelling allegations on these individuals for decreasing nation’s dignity and picture to the extent of “pleasing their moral masters” had mentioned, “Minorities, or for that matter every community in India is moving ahead positively. India’s image cannot be disgraced by malicious campaigns launched inside or outside India. PM Modi Ji’s voice is the voice of 1.4 billion Indians.”

    In his tweet he had additionally mentioned, “Some people in India have still not moved away from the colonial influence. They consider BBC to be above India’s highest court and pull down the country’s prestige and image to any extent to please their ideological masters (naitik aaka).” 

    DELHI: All India Bar Association Chairman and Senior Advocate Dr Adish C Aggarwala has written a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah requesting him to order 360 diploma probe into a world conspiracy angle in BBC’s latest documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

    AIBA’s chairman whereas wholeheartedly welcoming authorities’s transfer to dam YouTube channels and Twitter handles spreading this documentary within the letter has hunted for structure of an investigation group comprising of retired SC decide, jurists and investigators. 

    Aggarwala in his letter has mentioned that the invisible arms behind this documentary and the minds that have gotten collectively to sew an imaginary story with discredited and rejected proof needs to be recognized and delivered to the ebook.

    “This so-called documentary has nothing new to show or speak of. Much of its contents had been thoroughly circulated and discussed in public, considered and rejected by various courts, including the Supreme Court of India. The 20-year-old Gujarat riot has several layers to it, but this BBC tries to have a linear narrative, and quite maliciously tries to pin down our Prime Minister and the nation itself on the mat,” the letter to the Home Minister states. 

    Along with a probe, AIBA within the letter has additionally prayed for writing to the UK govt to establish individuals behind this manufacturing, probe their background and additional cooperate with the Government of India in accessing the so-called paperwork in possession of the BBC and maintain inquiry with individuals who had conceived, produced and unfold it the world over.

    On Sunday, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju whereas taking up the malicious campaigns had mentioned that some individuals take into account BBC above SC. Taking to twitter, Rijiju whereas levelling allegations on these individuals for decreasing nation’s dignity and picture to the extent of “pleasing their moral masters” had mentioned, “Minorities, or for that matter every community in India is moving ahead positively. India’s image cannot be disgraced by malicious campaigns launched inside or outside India. PM Modi Ji’s voice is the voice of 1.4 billion Indians.”

    In his tweet he had additionally mentioned, “Some people in India have still not moved away from the colonial influence. They consider BBC to be above India’s highest court and pull down the country’s prestige and image to any extent to please their ideological masters (naitik aaka).” 

  • ‘Propaganda journalism’: UK petition seeks unbiased probe in opposition to BBC collection on PM Modi

    An on-line petition within the United Kingdom demanded a probe in opposition to the BBC for its documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling it “sinister propaganda journalism”.

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 23, 2023 17:30 IST

    Condemning the documentary on PM Narendra Modi, the petition termed the it a “sinister propaganda journalism that deliberately misinforms its viewers”. (Photo: PTI)

    By India Today Web Desk: A day after a London lawmaker referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “one of the vital highly effective individuals on the planet”, an internet petition within the UK sought an unbiased probe in opposition to the BBC over its documentary on Modi.

    The petition sought an unbiased probe in opposition to British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), terming the documentary a “serious breach”. It additionally referred to as out the BBC for “breaching” its duties as a public broadcaster.

    ‘Call for an Independent Investigation into the BBC over Modi documentary’ on Change.Org, which “strongly” condemns the BBC for failing to satisfy the “highest standards of editorial impartiality”, has attracted over 2,500 signatures because it went on-line on Sunday night time, reported information company PTI.

    Condemning the documentary, the petition termed the two-part collection a “sinister propaganda journalism that deliberately misinforms its viewers”.

    “We strongly condemn the BBC for failing to meet the highest standards of editorial impartiality in its two-part documentary ‘India: The Modi Question’. The timing for airing, some 21 years later, a so-called investigative report that has nothing new in it, but only shoehorns old allegations to fit the producers clearly predetermined conclusions in itself speaks volumes,” the petition reads.

    “Inexplicably, it comes at a time when India’s Supreme Court has, after a prolonged investigation and due course of, utterly absolved Prime Minister Modi from the exact same allegations of complicity within the 2002 riots that the BBC now seeks to rake up after greater than twenty years,” it additional reads.

    Meanwhile, the federal government referred to as the documentary a “propaganda piece” and reportedly issued instructions for blocking a number of YouTube movies and Twitter posts sharing hyperlinks to the documentary.

    (With enter from PTI)

    ALSO READ | BBC documentary row: BJP’s ‘colonial intoxication’ jibe to Opposition’s censorship claims

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    Jan 23, 2023

  • BBC documentary an assault on India, not PM Modi: Dharmendra Pradhan

    Express News Service

    BHUBANESWAR: Slamming the most recent BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Education and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan termed the manufacturing an assault on India.
    In a freewheeling chat with the editorial staff of The New Indian Express, Odisha, as a part of ‘Express Dialogues’, Pradhan mentioned the fast-paced development and progress of India below Modi has not gone down properly with many sections.

    “I feel the documentary is not against Prime Minister Modi. It is against India. A lot of people are unable to digest the fact that India has become fifth largest economy in the world. It is creating a ripple in their mind as to how India, despite several challenges, is managing its economy, keeping inflation in control and maintaining the growth trajectory, which is around seven per cent,” he mentioned.

    Dharmendra Pradhan speaks throughout 
    Express Dialogues occasion in
    Bhubaneswar
    | DEBADATTA MALLICK

    Toeing the federal government line on the documentary exposing a “biased and blatant colonial mindset”, the minister mentioned, “How those who have ruled us for centuries, creating discrimination, can accept India’s emergence.”‘

    ‘However, the faith of people is enough for us (When faith is there. It is sufficient). The entire globe has accepted India’s empowerment below the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” he added.He additionally dismissed the continued Bharat Jodo Yatra of former Congress president and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi saying it was an effort to carry his personal base and keep related.

    “I feel that with all these exercises he may enrich himself with experience. But the kind of behaviour, words and narrative he has developed in this process, I don’t see any substantial outcome from his Yatra. It is just a vacuum,” he mentioned.

    Pradhan mentioned, the individuals of the nation are standing in solidarity with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  His welfare politics, delicate method and the way in which he has envisioned India’s progress within the subsequent 25 years is inspiring residents, particularly the youth and ladies.

    On the problems regarding his schooling ministry, Pradhan spoke concerning the NEP implementation and reiterated that corrected historical past will probably be taught to college students and new books on historical past and different associated topics will probably be launched from the subsequent tutorial session.

    The schooling minister although clarified that the target of the federal government was to not rewrite historical past, however to increase the canvas.  “We don’t want to offend anyone or curtail anything. We want to draw a bigger line of history. The unsung heros of our society have to be brought to the limelight in the 21st century, which is the recommendation of NEP. We want to create global citizens, but at the same time, we cannot forget our glorious past,” he asserted.

    ~ The full interview will probably be printed in The New Indian Express on Monday. It may also be accessed at:
    www.newindianexpress.com

    BHUBANESWAR: Slamming the most recent BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Education and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan termed the manufacturing an assault on India.
    In a freewheeling chat with the editorial staff of The New Indian Express, Odisha, as a part of ‘Express Dialogues’, Pradhan mentioned the fast-paced development and progress of India below Modi has not gone down properly with many sections.

    “I feel the documentary is not against Prime Minister Modi. It is against India. A lot of people are unable to digest the fact that India has become fifth largest economy in the world. It is creating a ripple in their mind as to how India, despite several challenges, is managing its economy, keeping inflation in control and maintaining the growth trajectory, which is around seven per cent,” he mentioned.

    Dharmendra Pradhan speaks throughout 
    Express Dialogues occasion in
    Bhubaneswar
    | DEBADATTA MALLICKToeing the federal government line on the documentary exposing a “biased and blatant colonial mindset”, the minister mentioned, “How those who have ruled us for centuries, creating discrimination, can accept India’s emergence.”‘

    ‘However, the faith of people is enough for us (When faith is there. It is sufficient). The entire globe has accepted India’s empowerment below the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” he added.He additionally dismissed the continued Bharat Jodo Yatra of former Congress president and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi saying it was an effort to carry his personal base and keep related.

    “I feel that with all these exercises he may enrich himself with experience. But the kind of behaviour, words and narrative he has developed in this process, I don’t see any substantial outcome from his Yatra. It is just a vacuum,” he mentioned.

    Pradhan mentioned, the individuals of the nation are standing in solidarity with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  His welfare politics, delicate method and the way in which he has envisioned India’s progress within the subsequent 25 years is inspiring residents, particularly the youth and ladies.

    On the problems regarding his schooling ministry, Pradhan spoke concerning the NEP implementation and reiterated that corrected historical past will probably be taught to college students and new books on historical past and different associated topics will probably be launched from the subsequent tutorial session.

    The schooling minister although clarified that the target of the federal government was to not rewrite historical past, however to increase the canvas.  “We don’t want to offend anyone or curtail anything. We want to draw a bigger line of history. The unsung heros of our society have to be brought to the limelight in the 21st century, which is the recommendation of NEP. We want to create global citizens, but at the same time, we cannot forget our glorious past,” he asserted.

    ~ The full interview will probably be printed in The New Indian Express on Monday. It may also be accessed at:
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