The Centre has ordered social media platforms, Twitter and YouTube, to take away the hyperlinks of a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sources mentioned.

Following these orders, tweets and YouTube movies of the documentary “India: The Modi Query” have been blocked each on microblogging and video-sharing website.

Reportedly, the I&B ministry instructed the 2 social media giants to dam the primary episode of the BBC documentary. This comes a day after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saved himself away from the documentary sequence and mentioned he “doesn’t agree with the characterisation” of his Indian counterpart within the UK’s parliament by Pakistan-origin MP Imran Hussain.

The I&B ministry additionally instructed Twitter to take away almost 50 tweets referring to the documentary by the BBC. Distinguished amongst these whose tweets on the documentary had been eliminated embody Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien.

“Censorship. Twitter has taken down my tweet of the BBC documentary. It acquired lakhs of views. The one-hour BBC documentary exposes how PM hates minorities,” O’Brien alleged.

The order to take away the hyperlinks was given below emergency powers of the Data Know-how Guidelines, 2021. Social media giants, YouTube and Twitter, have agreed to comply with the order.

In the meantime, over 300 ex-judges, bureaucrats, veterans slammed the Britain’s nationwide broadcaster for the documentary on Modi. They examined the documentary carefully and located it to be an try to solid aspersions on the authority and credibility of the Supreme Court docket, divide varied communities in India. They termed it “nefarious”.

India has referred to as the documentary a “propaganda piece” that lacks objectivity. The video displays a colonial mindset, the veterans felt.

The centre has additionally instructed YouTube and Twitter to take down contemporary hyperlinks of the documentary if some folks add or tweet them once more, sources mentioned.

Officers of a number of ministries together with dwelling and international, aside from I&B, have examined the documentary carefully and located it to be an try to solid aspersions on the authority and credibility of the Supreme Court docket, sow divisions amongst communities in India, folks within the know mentioned.

It’s price mentioning {that a} probe ordered by the Supreme Cour had discovered no proof of wrongdoing by PM Modi, the CM of Gujarat when the riots broke out in February 2002.

Tags BBC Documentary Modi