“Cancel It”: JNU To College students Planning To Display BBC Documentary On PM Modi

New Delhi:

The Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU) at present requested a bunch of scholars to cancel the screening of the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The scholars allegedly deliberate to display ‘India: The Modi Query’ tomorrow at 9 PM, the college administration stated in a press release. “No prior permission for this occasion has been taken from the JNU administration,” it stated.

The federal government has blocked entry to the two-part BBC documentary which claims to have investigated sure features of the 2002 Gujarat riots when PM Modi was the state’s Chief Minister.

“That is to emhasize that such an unauthorized exercise could disturb peace and concord of the College Campus. The involved college students/people are firmly suggested to cancel the proposed programme,” the JNU assertion stated.

The federal government had on Friday directed social media platforms Twitter and YouTube to dam hyperlinks to the collection. The Ministry of Exterior Affairs trashed the documentary as a “propaganda piece” that lacks objectivity and displays a colonial mindset.

Opposition leaders have lashed out on the centre with a few of them even sharing the hyperlink to the documentary.

Trinamool Congress MPs Mahua Moitra and Derek O’Brien shared an inventory of Twitter hyperlinks “blocked” on the federal government’s path. Ms Moitra stated she won’t settle for “censorship” and posted a hyperlink to the documentary on her official deal with.

“Sorry, Have not been elected to characterize the world’s largest democracy to just accept censorship. Here is the hyperlink. Watch it when you can,” she tweeted on Saturday.

A particular investigation staff appointed by the Supreme Court docket had stated, in a a 541-page report, in 2012 that it might discover no proof of wrongdoing by PM Modi, who was chief minister of Gujarat when the riots broke out in February 2002.