British MP Bob Blackman from Harrow East has termed BBC documentary on Prime Minister Modi as a “propaganda video” and a disgraceful piece of shoddy journalism. He further stated that the documentary should not have been released , because it overlooked an “all important fact” that India’s Supreme Court had investigated the claims against PM Modi on his involvement in 2002 riots and there was no evidence found against him to substantiate the claims.
British MP Bob Blackman terms BBC Documentary a propaganda video
He also stated that as Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi had put in his best efforts to stop the riots from taking place and even issued appeal for calm. Blackman also stated that BBC documentary was extremely regrettable and it seemed that there is some kind of agenda on part of BBC to disrupt Uk-India relations by saying “I think that’s a great shame.”
Further Blackman also stated that BBC video was full of innuendos and it was produced by an external organization and overseen by British Broadcaster.
British MP stated,
“The so-called documentary which is more of a propaganda video, if you like in a two-part series… (was) disgraceful piece of shoddy journalism with an attack on Narendra Modi, both in his time as Chief Minister of Gujarat and then his time as Prime Minister….(was) completely full of innuendos,” the British MP said.
“It should never have been broadcast by the BBC because the BBC has a worldwide reputation. People think, oh my goodness, this must be true. But, it was produced by an external organisation, overseen by the BBC….it (documentary) is far from the truth… it actually did not look in detail into the causes for the Gujarat riots 20 years ago and it certainly didn’t look at the all-important fact that the Supreme Court thoroughly investigated all the claims against Narendra Modi and found that not a shred of evidence to support them,” he added.
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Gujarat Administration under Chief Ministership of Narendra Modi did their best to restore law and order
The UK MP has further said that as Chief of Gujarat in 2002 , Narendra Modi and his administration had arranged Police forces not only from Gujarat , but from many states of India to quell the Gujarat riots. Eventually the Army was called to restore law and order.
Blackman said,
“They showed a film of him making appeals for calm and encouraging people to not to riot…. (they) put a whole series of different montages together with different people… I don’t know people involved but it was clear they had an axe to grind against Narendra Modi,” Blackman said.
Blackman also said that the BBC documentary was in no way reflective of the view of the British Government and informed that BBC was not its arm,
“Let’s be very clear, the BBC is not an arm of the British government. In fact, the BBC is frequently critical of the British government and, actually to be fair, critical of all the British government that has been that’s their job, their job is to ask questions, to look for evidence. But the key here is you can ask questions but when there is evidence to the contrary and it’s quite clearly not the case, then you shouldn’t be casting aspersions. I think that is the difference here, which I think it is extremely regrettable because it would seem as if there was some sort of agenda of the BBC to disrupt UK-India relations,”
BBC an independent organization
Also stated that BBC is an independent organization and there scope of work does not come under the British Government and all their assignments and projects do not come under the preview of the British Government.
“The British government regards India as a strong friend and a strong ally. We signed an agreement a year ago, now an agreement on security, defence and other matters and that demonstrates the goodwill between our countries. We are two countries with a shared past and tremendous future ahead of us and we are at the moment negotiating what could be an incredible free trade deal which would benefit India and the United Kingdom. So, anything that disrupts that is extremely regrettable, particularly when it’s with our foundation,”
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