When films or books are banned, they attract more attention and that itself makes them more popular which result in raking up huge financial gains. A British Broadcasting Corporation(BBC) documentary on prime minister Narendra Modi has set the country literally on fire. The BBC on January 17, released the first episode of \u201cThe Modi Question,\u201d a two-part documentary series that tracks how the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi climbed the political ranks of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party during his time as the Chief Minister of Gujarat. According to reports, the documentary was originally broadcasted in the U.K., but unauthorised video clips surfaced in India and quickly generated hype. Viewers in India were again reminded of Modi\u2019s controversial role in the 2002 Gujarat riots and prompting the government to block it from being aired on Indian platforms. The documentary highlighted an unpublished report from the U.K. Foreign Office that claims Modi was \u201cdirectly responsible\u201d for the \u201cclimate of impunity\u201d that enabled the violence. Modi had denied accusations of personal responsibility for the riots, while party cite a 2013 Supreme Court ruling of there being insufficient evidence to prosecute him. However, 0pposition parties and left leaders have questioned Modi about his role when he remained passive for days when carnage was spreading across many parts of Gujarat. That the opposition, mainly the Congress, continues to use the Gujarat carnage narrative even after the Supreme Court had absolved him reeks of pure political witch hunting. For the sake of argument, the number of people killed during November 1 to 4, 1984 after the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31,1984 was officially 2800 while independent sources including lists prepared by surviving families of victims, put the number of Sikhs murdered to between 8000 to 17,000. During this dark period Rajiv Gandhi did nothing to prevent mobs from targeting Sikhs be it men, women or children from being murdered, raped or burnt to death in horrific manner. If BBC is so possessed with justice, then it should have also made a similar documentary about the horrific pogrom in Delhi. In the Gujarat riots, it is officially reported that a total of around 2000, both Muslim and Hindu were killed. The government has cited emergency powers granted by the country\u2019s information and technology law to order that YouTube and Twitter block any content related to the documentary from being published on their platforms. However with regard to the controversial BBC documentary, senior BJP functionaries were been given space to defend Modi and in a way, the subsequent ban by the government appears to be quite uncalled for. The BBC documentary is motivated and subjective and banning it has only made the government appear eager to suppress it. Again, the same was done when then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi made India, the secular and liberal democracy as the first nation to ban The Satanic Verses by Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie an Indian-born British-American novelist. The Rajiv government\u2019s October 1988 ban may on The Satanic Verses, probably inspired Iranian leader Ayotollah Khomeini to order a \u2018fatwa\u2019 (death sentence) on Rushdie on February 14,1989. On the other hand Christians did not ban the fictional book, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown for its blasphemous references to Jesus Christ. Today the book has been buried under the dustbin of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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