MUMBAI (Reuters) – India has blocked broadcasts of a BBC documentary questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, and even cut clips shared via social media.
The directive to block the sharing of the clip was issued using emergency powers available to the government under the country’s information technology regulations, government adviser Kanchan Gupta said on his Twitter account on Saturday.
The BBC has not aired the documentary in India, but the video has been uploaded to several YouTube channels, Gupta said.
Gupta said the government has ordered Twitter to block more than 50 of his tweets linking to the documentary video, and YouTube has been ordered to block all uploads of the video. Both YouTube and he Twitter are following the instructions, he added. Mr Modi, who was chief minister of the western state of Gujarat, said more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed, according to the government. Riots erupted after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims caught fire, killing 59 people.
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Modi denies his claims that he failed to stop the riots. A special investigation team set up by the Supreme Court to investigate Mr Modi’s role in the riots said in a 541-page report in 2012 that it could find no evidence to indict the then prime minister. rice field. Modi was nominated as prime minister’s candidate for his party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, in 2013 and led the party to power in the 2014 and 2019 general elections.
Last week, a spokesman for India’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the BBC documentary a “propaganda piece” designed to spread a “discredited narrative”.ndia blocks broadcast of BBC documentary about India’s Modi.
