Members of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Mumbai unit on Saturday held a protest outside the city’s Tata Institute of Social Sciences against the proposed screening of a BBC documentary that revisits Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, reported The Indian Express.
Tajinder Singh Tiwana, the party’s Yuva Morcha president, alleged that the “anti-India film” is being screened with malafide intentions.
“The Institute authorities have not been able to provide any satisfactory response to our concerns,” Tiwana said, according to The Indian Express. “We will continue the protest.”
Video | BJP workers protesting outside the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in #Mumbai against students’ plan to screen BBC documentary on PM Modi. pic.twitter.com/w2Bmmovmu1
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Some of the members of the saffron party also raised the slogan “desh ke gaddaron ko, goli maaro saalon ko” (shoot the traitors) during the protest.
On Friday, the Progressive Students’ Forum, a student collective at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, had announced it would screen the documentary, India: The Modi Question, on campus. However, the university said that it has not permitted any such screening and gatherings “which may disturb the academic environment and jeopardise the peace and harmony in the campuses”.
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