Following reports of a group of students’ plans to screen a controversial BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP politics, Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) on Friday advise students and administration on any such events on campus. The institute said that failure to heed “advice” would be “strictly dealt with according to regulations”.
“We note with all seriousness that some students, through a group, are engaging in activities contrary to the advice issued on January 27 regarding the screening of a documentary film. of the BBC are banned by the Government and attempt to mobilize and incite students,” the advice said. accessed by NDTV.
According to news agency ANI, the institute has “not authorized any such screening and gathering activities that could disturb the academic environment”.
Off campus, ABVP and BJYM – student and youth groups affiliated with BJP and RSS – held protests against the screening plan.
The head of the ruling BJP’s Mumbai unit, Ashish Shelar, tweeted: “Police should ban it immediately or else we will take the stance we want!”
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The BBC’s two-part documentary ‘India: Question of Modi’ – which deals with the Gujarat riots in 2002, and the public politics attributed to Prime Minister Modi and the BJP – has been denounced by the government. Report is a “propaganda work” designed to present a discredited story. Using emergency powers, the government removed it in India from social media platforms like Twitter and YouTube.
Pratik Permey, leader of the TISS Student Union, said the association has not planned any screening sessions, but a group called the Progressive Student Forum (PSF) is organizing it.
Such screenings — as part of protests against censorship and “hiding the truth” — were held across the country, including at Delhi University, Jamia Millia Islamia and Jawaharlal Nehru University in national capital.
On Friday, students at DU were dragged off campus before a planned inspection could begin when university officials called the police.
