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'''''India: The Modi Question''''' is a 2023 two-part documentary series aired by [[BBC Two]] about the [[Prime Minister of India|Indian Prime Minister]] [[Narendra Modi]] and his relationship with the Muslim minority in the country. The first part was released on 17 January 2023 and focused on the [[2002 Gujarat riots]] that took place when Modi was the [[List of chief ministers of Gujarat|Chief Minister of Gujarat]].<ref name="IE2023">{{Cite web |date=21 January 2023 |title=Under what emergency powers has the BBC propaganda on PM Modi been blocked? |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/under-what-emergency-powers-has-the-bbc-documentary-on-modi-been-blocked-8396305/ |access-date=23 January 2023 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref name="IT2023">{{Cite web |title='Will you ban movie on Godse too?' Owaisi's jibe after govt blocks BBC documentary on PM Modi |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/will-you-ban-movie-on-godse-too-owaisis-jibe-after-govt-blocks-bbc-documentary-on-pm-modi-2325012-2023-01-23 |access-date=23 January 2023 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref> It examined Modi's early political career in the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] and his appointment as Chief Minister. It discussed documents found by the BBC, which show that Modi's conduct was criticized at the time by diplomats and the [[Government of the United Kingdom]].<ref name="Guardian 2023"/> The second part, released on 24 January 2023, looked at the [[Premiership of Narendra Modi|track record]] of Modi's government following his [[2019 Indian general election|re-election in 2019]]. A series of controversial policies, including the [[Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir|removal of Kashmir's 1947 special status]] and a [[Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019|controversial citizenship law]], has been accompanied by reports of violent attacks on Muslims by Hindus.<ref name="Hindu 2023">{{Cite news |last=Lakshman |first=Sriram |date=25 January 2023 |title=BBC documentary {{!}} Second part of ‘The Modi Question’ airs in the U.K. |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bbc-documentary-second-part-of-the-modi-question-airs-in-the-uk/article66429896.ece |access-date=25 January 2023 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
DELETE THIS PAGE BY BBC. MODIJI is innocent'''''India: The Modi Question''''' is a 2023 two-part documentary series aired by [[BBC Two]] about the [[Prime Minister of India|Indian Prime Minister]] [[Narendra Modi]] and his relationship with the Muslim minority in the country. The first part was released on 17 January 2023 and focused on the [[2002 Gujarat riots]] that took place when Modi was the [[List of chief ministers of Gujarat|Chief Minister of Gujarat]].<ref name="IE2023">{{Cite web |date=21 January 2023 |title=Under what emergency powers has the BBC propaganda on PM Modi been blocked? |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/under-what-emergency-powers-has-the-bbc-documentary-on-modi-been-blocked-8396305/ |access-date=23 January 2023 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref name="IT2023">{{Cite web |title='Will you ban movie on Godse too?' Owaisi's jibe after govt blocks BBC documentary on PM Modi |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/will-you-ban-movie-on-godse-too-owaisis-jibe-after-govt-blocks-bbc-documentary-on-pm-modi-2325012-2023-01-23 |access-date=23 January 2023 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref> It examined Modi's early political career in the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] and his appointment as Chief Minister. It discussed documents found by the BBC, which show that Modi's conduct was criticized at the time by diplomats and the [[Government of the United Kingdom]].<ref name="Guardian 2023"/> The second part, released on 24 January 2023, looked at the [[Premiership of Narendra Modi|track record]] of Modi's government following his [[2019 Indian general election|re-election in 2019]]. A series of controversial policies, including the [[Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir|removal of Kashmir's 1947 special status]] and a [[Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019|controversial citizenship law]], has been accompanied by reports of violent attacks on Muslims by Hindus.<ref name="Hindu 2023">{{Cite news |last=Lakshman |first=Sriram |date=25 January 2023 |title=BBC documentary {{!}} Second part of ‘The Modi Question’ airs in the U.K. |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bbc-documentary-second-part-of-the-modi-question-airs-in-the-uk/article66429896.ece |access-date=25 January 2023 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>


The [[Government of India]] banned the documentary from being aired, and asked social media sites to taken down snippets of the documentary shared by users.<ref name="Guardian 2023">{{Cite web |date=23 January 2023 |title=India invokes emergency laws to ban BBC Modi documentary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/23/india-emergency-laws-to-ban-bbc-narendra-modi-documentary |access-date=23 January 2023 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> In response to the government's ban, BBC said in a statement that the documentary was "rigorously researched" and "a wide range of voices, witnesses and experts were approached, featuring a range of opinions, including responses from people in the BJP."<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 January 2023 |title=India government criticises BBC's Modi documentary |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64342679 |access-date=24 January 2023}}</ref>
The [[Government of India]] banned the documentary from being aired, and asked social media sites to taken down snippets of the documentary shared by users.<ref name="Guardian 2023">{{Cite web |date=23 January 2023 |title=India invokes emergency laws to ban BBC Modi documentary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/23/india-emergency-laws-to-ban-bbc-narendra-modi-documentary |access-date=23 January 2023 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> In response to the government's ban, BBC said in a statement that the documentary was "rigorously researched" and "a wide range of voices, witnesses and experts were approached, featuring a range of opinions, including responses from people in the BJP."<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 January 2023 |title=India government criticises BBC's Modi documentary |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64342679 |access-date=24 January 2023}}</ref>

Revision as of 05:54, 27 January 2023

India: The Modi Question
GenreDocumentary
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes2
Production
Executive producersRichard Cookson
Mike Radford
Running time60 minutes (per episode)
Original release
NetworkBBC
Release17 January (2023-01-17) –
24 January 2023 (2023-01-24)

DELETE THIS PAGE BY BBC. MODIJI is innocentIndia: The Modi Question is a 2023 two-part documentary series aired by BBC Two about the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his relationship with the Muslim minority in the country. The first part was released on 17 January 2023 and focused on the 2002 Gujarat riots that took place when Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.[1][2] It examined Modi's early political career in the Bharatiya Janata Party and his appointment as Chief Minister. It discussed documents found by the BBC, which show that Modi's conduct was criticized at the time by diplomats and the Government of the United Kingdom.[3] The second part, released on 24 January 2023, looked at the track record of Modi's government following his re-election in 2019. A series of controversial policies, including the removal of Kashmir's 1947 special status and a controversial citizenship law, has been accompanied by reports of violent attacks on Muslims by Hindus.[4]

The Government of India banned the documentary from being aired, and asked social media sites to taken down snippets of the documentary shared by users.[3] In response to the government's ban, BBC said in a statement that the documentary was "rigorously researched" and "a wide range of voices, witnesses and experts were approached, featuring a range of opinions, including responses from people in the BJP."[5]

Background

Anti-Muslim riots occurred in the Indian state of Gujarat in 2002.[6] Nearly one thousand people were killed, most of them Muslim: and 150,000 people were displaced.[7] The riots followed the deaths of Hindu pilgrims on a train in Godhra, for which the state's Muslim minority was blamed.[7] The riots were among the worst religious violence since India became an independent country in 1947.[8] Narendra Modi, a member of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was at the time the Chief Minister of Gujarat.[7] His administration has been considered complicit in the riots,[9][10][11][12] or otherwise criticised for its management of the crisis. A Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court of India found no evidence to initiate prosecution proceedings against Modi personally.[13][14] Modi's role in the riots has remained a source of controversy.[8]

Content

The first part of the documentary, approximately an hour in length,[8] examines the 2002 Gujarat riots.[1][2] It covers Modi's early political career in the BJP and his appointment as Chief Minister. It discussed documents found by the BBC, which show that Modi's conduct was criticized at the time by diplomats and the Government of the United Kingdom.[3] These include a report stating that the violence in Gujarat showed "all the hallmarks of an ethnic cleansing".[3] Jack Straw, at the time the UK Foreign Secretary, is depicted saying that there were "serious claims" that Modi had actively restricting the activities of the police, and in "tacitly encouraging the Hindu extremists".[15] The second part, released on 24 January 2023, is also an hour long. It looks at the track record of Modi's government following his re-election in 2019. A series of controversial policies, including the removal of Kashmir's 1947 special status and a discriminatory citizenship law, has been accompanied by reports of violent attacks on Muslims by Hindus.[4]

Release and reaction

The first part of the two-part documentary was released on 17 January 2023,[2] and the second part on 24 January.[4] The Indian Ministry of External Affairs described the documentary as propaganda, stated that it lacked objectivity, and "reflected a colonial mindset."[1] It was later banned in India, with the government invoking a 2021 law that increased its power to censor social media.[16] Twitter and YouTube blocked posts linking to the documentary on their platforms following legal demands from the Indian government.[17] Trinamool Congress leaders Derek O'Brien and Mahua Moitra, who tweeted video links to the documentary, criticized the move as censorship.[18] The Guardian wrote that the ban on India: The Modi Question had occurred during a period of restricted press freedom in India, during which journalists had experienced harassment by the government and the judiciary.[3] The ban has been frequently circumvented; clips from the documentary circulated on WhatsApp, Telegram, and Twitter,[16] and VPNs were used to circumvent the ban.[7] Commentators argued that the ban had drawn more attention to the documentary that it would otherwise have received.[16]

On 23 January 2023, a students' group Fraternity Movement at Hyderabad Central University organised the screening of the documentary inside the campus. On 24 January 2023, the Democratic Youth Federation of India screened it in various parts of Kerala.[19][20] DYFI described its decision to screen the documentary, stating, "Let people see the fascist face of the Sangh Parivar outfits. We will go ahead with the plan and more screenings will be done at other places also in the coming days." The Indian Youth Congress said that it too would screen the documentary in Kerala.[21] The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) also decided to screen the documentary: electricity and internet access to the room where the screening was to take place were cut by university authorities, leading to students streaming the documentary on their cell phones.[7][22] After students at Jamia Millia University planned a screening, at least a dozen students were arrested, and the university entrances blocked.[22][23]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Under what emergency powers has the BBC propaganda on PM Modi been blocked?". The Indian Express. 21 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "'Will you ban movie on Godse too?' Owaisi's jibe after govt blocks BBC documentary on PM Modi". India Today. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e "India invokes emergency laws to ban BBC Modi documentary". the Guardian. 23 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  4. ^ a b c Lakshman, Sriram (25 January 2023). "BBC documentary | Second part of 'The Modi Question' airs in the U.K." The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  5. ^ "India government criticises BBC's Modi documentary". BBC News. 20 January 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  6. ^ "India's government scrambles to block a film about Modi's role in anti-Muslim riots". NPR. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  7. ^ a b c d e "As India Tries to Block a Modi Documentary, Students Fight to See It". The New York Times. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  8. ^ a b c Rajvanshi, Astha (23 January 2023). "Why India Is Using Emergency Laws to Ban a Modi Documentary". Time. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  9. ^ Bobbio, Tommaso (1 May 2012). "Making Gujarat Vibrant: Hindutva, development and the rise of subnationalism in India". Third World Quarterly. 33 (4): 657–672. doi:10.1080/01436597.2012.657423. S2CID 154422056.
  10. ^ Nussbaum, Martha Craven (2008). The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future. Harvard University Press. pp. 17–28, 50–51. ISBN 978-0-674-03059-6. JSTOR 27639120.
  11. ^ Shani, Orrit (2007). Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat. Cambridge University Press. pp. 168–173. ISBN 978-0-521-68369-2.
  12. ^ Jaffrelot, Christophe (June 2013). "Gujarat Elections: The Sub-Text of Modi's 'Hattrick'—High Tech Populism and the 'Neo-middle Class'". Studies in Indian Politics. 1 (1): 79–95. doi:10.1177/2321023013482789. S2CID 154404089. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  13. ^ "India Gujarat Chief Minister Modi cleared in riots case". BBC News. BBC. 10 April 2012. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  14. ^ Dasgupta, Manas (10 April 2012). "SIT finds no proof against Modi, says court". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  15. ^ Bhattacherjee, Kallol (19 January 2023). "BBC documentary on PM Modi is 'propaganda' and reflects 'colonial mindset', says India". The Hindu. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  16. ^ a b c Syed, Armani (26 January 2023). "How Indians Are Watching the Banned BBC Modi Documentary". Time. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  17. ^ Rajvanshi, Astha; Syed, Armani (23 January 2023). "Why India Is Using Emergency Laws to Ban a Modi Documentary". Time. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  18. ^ "The Modi Question: Government blocks YouTube videos, tweets sharing BBC documentary on PM Modi". www.dnaindia.com. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  19. ^ "DYFI to screen 'banned' BBC documentary in Thiruvananthapuram, more campuses follow suit". OnManorama. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  20. ^ "DYFI screens BBC documentary in Kerala". English.Mathrubhumi. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  21. ^ "DYFI, SFI, Congress to screen banned BBC documentary on PM Modi in Kerala". News9live. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  22. ^ a b "Jamia, JNU: India students angry after screenings of BBC Modi documentary blocked". BBC News. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  23. ^ "Dozen students detained after bid to screen Modi documentary at Jamia campus". The Indian Express. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2023.

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