Indian diaspora protests outside BBC headquarters in London

Large number of Indian diaspora gathered in front of the BBC offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow to protest against the telecasting of two-part documentary by BBC, titled ‘India – the Modi Question” on 17th and 24th January.

In it, BBC tried to rake up the unfortunate incident of Gujrat riots of 2002 following the live burning of Hindu pilgrims by Muslim mob in Gujrat. Indian diaspora in UK feels hurt and angry by this biased, anti-India documentary by BBC based on old propaganda material against India’s prime minister Mr Modi.

BBC seems to have deliberately telecasted it to damage the image of Indian Prime Minister Mr Modi. The incident happened 20 years ago. It has been thoroughly investigated and culprits punished long time back. The Highest court of India has already exonerated Mr Modi of any blame of the riots but BBC has completely ignored it, denigrating the Indian judiciary… BBC has assembled 20 years of biased reportage, peppered it with outdated condiments and garnished it with loads of misplaced victimhood.

Whole documentary is based on hearsay, personal opinions of well-known Modi haters, conjecture and as rightly said by Mr Swapan Das Gupta – “a systematic campaign by groups of media, journalists, NGO’s and certain individuals to politically destroy Mr Modi.

Indian diaspora expressed its anger and unhappiness in no uncertain terms in today’s peaceful protest and asked the BBC to apologise for this documentary and promise not to do it in future.