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Amid Row, Congress Screens BBC Documentary On PM Modi In Kerala



The Parliamentary Unit in Kerala screened the controversial BBC documentary

Thiruvananthapuram:

The Parliamentary Unit in Kerala today screened the BBC’s controversial documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Thiruvananthapuram even though the central government has banned it in India claiming it is false “propaganda” and have engine.

The public screening of the series — a two-part documentary about the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Modi’s politics — was one of many such events hosted by a number of Opposition parties and activists. Free speech movement across the country. Congress is also in opposition in Kerala, but the ruling CPM has also taken a stance against banning the documentary.

In Kerala, the documentary was in the spotlight even in Parliament as the son of veteran AK Antony leader Anil K Antony recently left the party accused of “intolerant calls to withdraw a tweets” in which he defied Parliament’s stance and called the BBC documentary a “dangerous precedent”.

Responding to Anil Antony’s argument that it undermines India’s sovereignty, Congress senior leader Shashi Tharoor, Lok Sabha member from Thiruvananthapuram, said his argument was “immature”.

“[Are] Our national security and sovereignty are too fragile to be affected by a documentary?” Tharoor said.

Today’s screening on Shanguughham Beach in the Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram followed quickly after such protest screenings in Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and a screening by the NSUI student parliament wing in Chandigarh.

Meanwhile, the Students Federation of India (SFI) also screened the documentary on the campus of Jadavpur University in Kolkata on Thursday night without any police intervention.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, speaking to reporters in Jammu, questioned censorship. “The truth shines brightly. It has a nasty habit of being public. So no prohibition, oppression and threats can prevent the truth from being exposed,” he said.

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