[1/2] Indian High Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he leaves in a vehicle after attending the funeral of his mother Heeraben, in Gandhinagar, India, December 30, 2022. REUTERS/Amit Dave
MUMBAI, Jan 22 (Reuters) – India has blocked the airing of a BBC documentary which wondered High Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership right throughout the 2002 Gujarat riots, pronouncing that even sharing of any clips via social media is barred.
Instructions to block the clips from being shared relish been issued utilizing emergency powers available to the federal government under the nation’s data technology solutions, stated Kanchan Gupta, an adviser to the federal government, on his Twitter cope with on Saturday.
While the BBC has now not aired the documentary in India, the video became uploaded on some YouTube channels, Gupta stated.
The government has issued orders to Twitter to block over 50 tweets linking to the video of the documentary and YouTube has been suggested to block any uploads of the video, Gupta stated. Each and every YouTube and Twitter relish complied with the directions, he added.
Modi became the manager minister of the western recount of Gujarat when it became gripped by communal riots that left more than 1,000 folk ineffective, by government depend – most of them Muslims. The violence erupted after a practice carrying Hindu pilgrims caught fire, killing 59.
Human rights activists estimate now not much less than double that quantity died in the rioting.
Modi denied accusations that he didn’t halt the rioting. A distinct investigation team appointed by the Supreme Court to review the characteristic of Modi and others in the violence stated in a 541-page list in 2012 it could well also score no proof to prosecute the then chief minister.
Modi became later named the high of his celebration, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Celebration, which he ended in vitality in customary elections in 2014 and then in 2019.
Final week, a spokesperson for India’s international ministry termed the BBC documentary a “propaganda fraction” intended to push a “discredited legend”.
Reporting by Ira Dugal; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan
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