LondonBritain’s broadcasting company BBC is in controversy over a two-episode series on India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. There has been an uproar over the series that came with the title ‘India: The Modi Question’. The description of this series gives a hint about it. It states, ‘Look at the tension between India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and India’s Muslim minority community, there are many different stories about his role in the 2002 riots in which several thousand people died. ‘ Only the Indians living there are expressing displeasure over this series.
Users expressed displeasure
Users of Indian origin have reacted to this on Twitter. A user has written that BBC should run a series on hunger in Bengal. It should be named ‘UK: The Churchill Question’. Another user has written that BBC should focus on the problems of UK. Britain is currently lagging behind India in every respect.
On the other hand, another user has written that one thing that every Indian hates is that they are repeatedly called outsiders and this is said by the people who once enslaved them. The Prime Ministerial tenure of PM Modi will be looked into in the BBC series.
According to the series, how many allegations from the Muslim population are continuously rejected by the government. Along with this, the series has also declared many policies as controversial. These are the policies which were implemented by the Modi government after coming back to power in the year 2019.
