British PM Sunak defends PM Modi over controversial BBC documentary
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India on Thursday termed the BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots as “a piece of propaganda”, saying it clearly reflected bias, lack of objectivity and a colonial mindset.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has come to the defense of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the controversial BBC documentary. A BBC documentary claims that the British government knew about an Indian leader’s alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. India on Thursday termed the BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots as “a piece of propaganda”, saying it clearly reflected bias, lack of objectivity and a colonial mindset.
Responding to reporters’ questions in New Delhi on the BBC documentary, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said it was part of a disinformation campaign to push a particular ‘false narrative’. Sunak, when asked whether he agreed with claims made in a BBC documentary that some diplomats in the UK Foreign Office knew that “Prime Minister Narendra Modi was directly responsible”, said that he was a member of the opposition Labor Party. Parliamentarians do not agree with the characterization of Prime Minister Modi by Imran Hussain of Pakistani origin. Significantly, this documentary is on the riots in Gujarat when Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of the state. “The British government’s position on this is clear, and it hasn’t changed at all,” Sunak said.
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