BBC documentary: The Congress unit in Kerala will screen the controversial BBC documentary on PM Narendra Modi in Thiruvananthapuram today. The Central government has banned the documentary in India and called it false and motivated “propaganda”.
Two-part BBC documentary series speaks about the 2002 Gujarat riots and the then chief minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi.
Tharoor calls Antony immature
Meanwhile, the documentary is at the centre of a storm in Kerala Congress. Veteran leader AK Antony’s son Anil K Antony recently resigned from the party. He alleged he had been receiving “intolerant calls to retract a tweet” in which he had defied the Congress stand and called the BBC documentary a “dangerous precedent”.
Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha member from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor, reacted to Anil Antony’s argument that it undermines India’s sovereignty. Tharoor said his argument is “immature”. “The sovereignty of our country cannot be affected so easily… Will it be affected if a foreign documentary is screened?…. [Are] our national security and sovereignty so fragile to be affected by a documentary?” Tharoor asked.
Protest screenings
The screening on Shangumugham Beach in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday evening comes soon after similar protest screenings in Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and one by the NSUI, Congress student wing, in Chandigarh.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi too questioned censorship by the government. “Truth shines bright. It has a nasty habit of coming out. So no amount of banning, oppression and frightening people is going to stop the truth from coming out,” he said.
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