Rishi Sunak denounces BBC documentary’s portrayal of PM Modi

On Thursday, nineteenth January 2023, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dismissed the villainous portrayal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a BBC documentary. Responding to Imran Hussain, a Pakistani-British Muslim MP, who quoted the characterization showcased by BBC in its documentary sequence whereas asking a query to the British PM within the British parliament, the PM mentioned that he doesn’t agree with the characterization of his Indian counterpart within the documentary.

Imran Hussain requested, “Mr. Speaker, last night the BBC revealed the foreign office knew the extent of the involvement of Narendra Modi in the Gujarat massacre that paved the way for the persecution of Muslims and the other minorities we see in India today. With the senior diplomats reporting that the massacre could not have taken place without a climate of impunity created by Modi and he was in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s own words directly responsible for this violence, given that hundreds were brutally killed and the families across India and the world including here in the UK are still without justice, does the Prime Minister agrees with his diplomats in the foreign office that Modi was directly responsible and just what more does the foreign office know of his involvement in this grave act of ethnic cleansing?”

That’s what the @BBC needs. Join fingers with the far left labour MPs to query the legitimacy of the Modi govt.
Good shutdown by Rishi Sunak.#DefundtheBBC pic.twitter.com/EUdv8Czsjm

— Smita Deshmukh🇮🇳 (@smitadeshmukh) January 19, 2023

To this, PM Rishi Sunak replied, “Mr. Speaker, the UK government’s position on this has been clear in long-standing and has not changed. Of course, we don’t tolerate persecution anywhere, but I am not sure I agree at all with the characterization the honourable gentleman has put forward.”

UK’s National broadcaster BBC aired a two-part sequence documentary on BBC Two channel attacking PM Narendra Modi’s tenure as Gujarat Chief Minister throughout the Gujarat riots of 2002. The documentary sparked outrage and was faraway from choose platforms.

India on Thursday denounced the controversial BBC documentary sequence on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and described it as a “propaganda piece” that’s designed to push a discredited narrative.

Addressing a weekly media briefing External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson, Arindam Bagchi mentioned this documentary present, based mostly on some inner UK experiences, reveals the colonial mindset. “We think this is a propaganda piece designed to push a particular discredited narrative. The bias and the lack of objectivity and frankly continuing colonial mindset are belatedly visible,” Bagchi mentioned in response to the query on the PM documentary sequence.

It is notable that a number of courts in India together with the Supreme Court have dominated on a number of events that the Gujarat riots have been introduced underneath management shortly and there’s no proof that the state govt had requested police to not take motion in opposition to the rioteers.