Government has blocked BBC documentary on PM Narendra Modi and Gujarat hatred.
New Delhi :
The central government has ordered the blocking of tweeters sharing a BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tweets sharing YouTube links to BBC documentaries have also been blocked. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued instructions for this.
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According to sources, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has ordered that all videos shared on YouTube of the first episode of the BBC documentary have been blocked. Radio has been ordered to block over 50 tweets containing YouTube video links to the BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question”.
Sources say that instructions were issued by the Information and Broadcasting Secretary on Friday using the emergency powers under the IT Rules, 2021. Both YouTube and Twitter have complied with these directives.
The documentary was produced by the British Broadcasting Contracts (BBC), the UK’s public broadcaster. Its Indian Ministry of External Affairs described it as a “piece of Carcoganda” lacking fairness and reflecting colonial attitudes. The ministry said the BBC included it in polls not available in India. Some YouTube channel has uploaded it. It seems to have been uploaded to promote the anti-India agenda.
It is being told that YouTube has also directed to block the video from being uploaded again on its platform. Twitter has also instructed other platforms to identify and block tweets containing links to videos.
Reliable sources have confirmed that senior officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs and Information Broadcasting, including the Ministry of External Affairs, examined the documentary and found the film to be an attempt to plant a target. It marks the authority and statistics of the Supreme Court of the country. It creates divisions among various Indian communities and makes baseless allegations about the actions of foreign states in India.
The investigation found that the documentary is undermining the sovereignty and integrity of India and has a presumptive effect on the public order of the country as well as India’s friendly relations with foreign countries.