BBC Documentary on PM Modi: The Government of India has ordered the blocking of YouTube videos and tweets sharing the BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This information has come to the fore by quoting sources. If sources are to be believed, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued instructions for this. ,Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued the order

According to sources, the Government of India has also ordered the blocking of YouTube videos in which the first episode of the BBC documentary was shared. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued this order. In addition, Twitter has also been ordered to remove YouTube links to the first episode of this documentary Block tweets greater than . Following this order, several tweets and YouTube videos of the documentary titled India: The Modi Question are no longer visible on microblogging and video sharing websites. ,The Ministry of External Affairs called the documentary a propaganda piece

According to sources, this order has been given using emergency powers under IT Rules 2021 . If sources are to be believed, YouTube and Twitter will have to obey these orders. Explain that the Ministry of External Affairs has described the documentary as a propaganda piece. Amidst the controversy, senior officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting examined the documentary and found it an attempt to attack the authority of the Supreme Court.

British Prime Minister defends PM Modi

Earlier, the issue of BBC documentary on Gujarat riots cropped up in the British Parliament as well. Britain’s PM Rishi Sunak defended India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and objected to the BBC documentary. Rishi Sunak distances himself from BBC documentary defending PM Modi in British Parliament. He said that he does not agree with the way his Indian counterpart’s character has been shown in the documentary.

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Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 4: 34 PM IST