Why Modi opposes India viewing the BBC documentary on the atrocities in Gujarat
According to local Indian media, the Indian government allegedly forced Twitter and YouTube to take down links to a BBC documentary about the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Several tweets and YouTube videos from the documentary "India: The Modi Question" are no longer viewable on microblogging and video-sharing websites.
The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry reportedly gave the two social media moguls instructions to block the first episode of the BBC documentary a day after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak distanced himself from the series, declaring that he "doesn't agree with the characterization" of his Indian counterpart in the UK's parliament by Pakistan-origin MP Imran Hussain, according to NDTV sources.
In Gujarat, what occurred in 2002?
Modi was chosen as Gujarat's chief minister in late 2001 to end divisions among the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Until that point, he was a senior member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the BJP's ideological mentor on the far right, which was established in 1925 in the style of the fascist parties of the time in Europe. India's 200 million Muslims will be treated as second-class citizens in the RSS's ethnically Hindu state that would be established there. 59 persons perished when a train carrying many Hindu pilgrims going home from the Uttar Pradesh state shrine town of Ayodhya caught fire in February 2002. While the Modi-led state government claimed Muslim vendors at Godhra station set fire to the train, a federally mandated committee's 2006 report said the fire was unintentional.
Hindu mobs in Gujarat started to rampage through Muslim neighborhoods as soon as the word of the Godhra event spread. Gujarat became one of India's most religiously divided states due to the carnage that left more than 2,000 people dead, the majority of them Muslims, and hundreds of women sexually assaulted. At that moment, a number of other nations, notably the United Kingdom, stopped communicating with Modi, and the United States banned him from traveling.
Modi was dubbed "Hindu Hridaysamrat" (the monarch of Hindu hearts) as a result of the bloodshed, but it also elevated his status within the BJP and RSS. He remained in charge of Gujarat until 2014 when he relocated to New Delhi to become the 15th prime minister of India.
About what is the BBC movie?
According to the 59-minute film, Modi, who was Gujarat's chief minister at the time, gave the police orders to ignore the days-long violence. In the movie, it is stated that Modi met with senior police officers and "directed them not to intervene" in the attacks on Muslims, according to a previously classified British foreign ministry report citing anonymous sources.
The objective of the violence, it added, was to "purge Muslims from Hindu communities," and it was "politically driven." Without the "environment of impunity generated by the state administration, Narendra Modi is directly responsible," the riots would not have been possible.
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