New Delhi:
Two members of a left-wing college students’ physique at Delhi’s prestigious Jamia Millia Islamia college had been detained by the police on Wednesday over their plan to display the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the mass communication division this night.
Police in blue riot gear and vans with tear-gas cannons reached the gates of the faculty in south east Delhi. In an order issued on Tuesday, authorities at Jamia had mentioned they won’t permit any unauthorised gatherings on campus after the College students Federation of India introduced the screening on Fb.
The documentary, primarily based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tenure as Chief Minister of Gujarat throughout the 2002 riots, has kicked up a storm with the federal government banning the movie and asking social media firms to take down hyperlinks to it.
An identical plan by a bit of Jawaharlal Nehru College college students to display the BBC final night bumped into bother as each web and electrical energy went out within the College students’ Union workplace. College students watched the documentary on their cellphones and laptops, and the night ended with a protest march.
