Highlights

  • Centre issues directions to block social media sites which are sharing links to BBC documentary
  • Directive issued by top official in the MEA
  • Documentary designed to push a particular "discredited narrative": MEA

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The two-part BBC documentary, which claims it investigated certain aspects relating to the 2002 Gujarat riots when PM Narendra Modi was the CM of the state, has been trashed by the Ministry of External Affairs as a "propaganda piece"

The Centre has reportedly issued directions for blocking multiple YouTube videos and Twitter posts sharing links to the BBC documentary "India: The Modi Question", according to sources to PTI.

The directions on blocking access were understood to have been issued by Secretary in the MEA, Apurva Chandra, on January 20 using the emergency powers under the IT Rules, 2021, a PTI report said.

The two-part BBC documentary, which claims it investigated certain aspects relating to the 2002 Gujarat riots when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the chief minister of the state, has been trashed by the Ministry of External Affairs as a "propaganda piece" that lacked objectivity and reflected a "colonial mindset".

(PTI)

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