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Posters present in AMU with QR code of BBC documentary on Modi

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After JNU, the controversy over the documentary made by the BBC on PM Modi has now reached the Aligarh Muslim University. Posters of the documentary have been put up at many locations within the college. A QR code of the documentary has additionally been displayed on these posters, saying that the banned documentary may be watched by scanning it. The college administration has additionally eliminated these posters from many locations.

Many educational campuses throughout the nation have witnessed controversy concerning this documentary. This documentary made on the Gujarat riots has been banned by the federal government. But regardless of this, efforts are being made by the scholars within the universities to point out it. ‘Student’ politicians in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Delhi University (DU) have already created controversy over the screening of the documentary. Now, this dispute has reached Aligarh Muslim University.

An try was made to ship the BBC documentary by means of QR codes to the cell phones of many of the college students on campus. Posters having the QR code of the documentary have been pasted at many locations on campus. The documentary would open immediately after scanning this QR code. It is pertinent to notice that as a result of ban on the documentary for the final a number of days, the college administration was absolutely alert. The safety staffers got related tips. But within the meantime, nobody on the campus has any details about when and the way these posters have been pasted. As quickly as the knowledge was obtained, posters have been faraway from many locations, as per stories.

On Thursday, twenty sixth January 2023, the controversial BBC Documentary “India: The Modi Question” was screened at Jadavpur University in Kolkata and the University of Hyderabad by the Students Federation of India’s (SFI) members. The screening got here after failing to take action at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia University. Now, an try of spreading the QR code of the documentary to college students by means of posters has come to mild at Aligarh Muslim University.