Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Sunday shared the link to a documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Narendra Modi produced by the BBC
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Sunday shared the link to a documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Narendra Modi produced by the BBC, amid the ban imposed by the government.
MP Mahua Moitra shared the link to the BBC documentary of PM Narendra Modi. Her post came a day after the central government had reportedly had asked Twitter and YouTube to take down links to the first episode of the multi-part documentary titled “India: The Modi Question”.
Further more, MP Moitra tweeted; “Govt on war footing to ensure noone in India can watch a mere BBC show. Shame that the emperor & courtiers of the world’s largest democracy are so insecure (sic).”
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A day after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak disassociated himself from the documentary series, stating that he “doesn’t agree with the characterization” of his Indian counterpart in the UK’s parliament by Pakistan-origin MP Imran Hussain, the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry instructed the two social media titans to block the first episode of the BBC documentary, according to people familiar with the situation.
Sources stated, the ministry told Twitter to remove over 50 tweets on the documentary by Britain’s national broadcaster.
Mahua Moitra’s party colleague and MP Derek O’Brien was among some opposition leaders whose tweet on the documentary was removed by Twitter.
“Censorship. Twitter has taken down my tweet of the BBC documentary. It received lakhs of views. The one-hour BBC documentary exposes how PM hates minorities,” Mr O’Brien tweeted.
Govt on war footing to ensure noone in India can watch a mere @BBC show.
Shame that the emperor & courtiers of the world’s largest democracy are so insecure.
— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) January 21, 2023
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