Opposition Leaders Tweet Link Of BBC Series On PM, Slam "Censorship" - NDTV

1. Asked astir the government's determination to artifact entree to the BBC documentary "India: The Modi Question", Congress's Gaurav Vallabh told reporters: "There is simply a strategy of the authorities of India called 'Block successful India', similar 'Make successful India', 'Startup India'. The authorities does not privation hard questions to beryllium asked. If the BBC office were successful Delhi, the ED (Enforcement Directorate) mightiness person been connected their doorstep by now."

2. Trinamool Congress's Derek O'Brien and Mahua Moitra some tweeted video links to the documentary. Calling it "censorship", Mr O'Brien said Twitter had taken down his earlier station which had received "lakhs of views". Today, helium said different of his tweets has survived "for astir 3 days. WATCH".

3. Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra, known for her beardown speeches successful parliament, declared that the authorities is "insecure". "Shame that the emperor & courtiers of the world's largest ideology are truthful insecure (sic)," she tweeted. "Sorry, Haven't been elected to correspond world's largest ideology to judge censorship. Here's the link. Watch it portion you can," work a 2nd tweet.

4. "In the property of VPN, however impactful are these bans nether exigency clauses cited by the I&B Ministry to prohibition a BBC documentary. The much they determination scorn connected it, constitute protestation letters, the much radical would beryllium funny to watch," tweeted Shiv Sena's Priyanka Chaturvedi.

5. Union instrumentality curate Kiren Rijiju tweeted saying "Some radical successful India inactive haven't gotten implicit the assemblage intoxication". "They see BBC supra the Supreme Court of India and little the country's dignity and representation to immoderate grade to delight their motivation masters," work a unsmooth translation of his Hindi tweet.

6. "Minorities, oregon for that substance each assemblage successful India is moving up positively. India's representation cannot beryllium disgraced by malicious campaigns launched wrong oregon extracurricular India," helium added successful different tweet.

7. Sources said the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry has asked Twitter and YouTube to artifact the archetypal occurrence of the BBC docu-series, which claims to person investigated definite aspects of the 2002 Gujarat riots erstwhile PM Modi was the state's Chief Minister. The Centre had slammed the series, calling it a "propaganda portion that lacks objectivity and reflects a assemblage mindset".

8. "We deliberation this is simply a propaganda portion designed to propulsion a peculiar discredited narrative. The bias and deficiency of objectivity and frankly continuing assemblage mindset are blatantly visible," the overseas ministry has said.

9. Over 300 erstwhile judges, bureaucrats, and salient citizens  person slammed the BBC, saying it is the archetype of past British imperialism successful India "setting itself up arsenic some justice and assemblage to resurrect Hindu-Muslim tensions". Prominent Indian-origin UK citizens person condemned the series. Prominent UK Citizen Lord Rami Ranger said the "BBC caused a large woody of wounded to implicit a cardinal Indians."

10. Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak distanced himself from the series. In a snub to Pakistan-origin MP Imran Hussain, who raised the matter, helium told the UK parliament that helium "doesn't hold with the characterisation" of his Indian counterpart.

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