NEW DELHI: A top Indian university has warned its students’ union of strict disciplinary action if it goes ahead with planned screening of BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying it might “Disturb peace and harmony” on campus.

JNU Students start watching the BBC Documentary India: The Modi question on their mobile phones, Laptops After the University cut off the electricity inside the Campus to stop a screening of the documentary.#BBCDocumentary pic.twitter.com/huJLXKq5wu

— Akshay Dongare (@AkshayDongare_) January 24, 2023

Modi’s government has dismissed documentary, which questioned his leadership during deadly riots in his home state of Gujarat in 2002, as “Propaganda”, blocked its airing and also barred sharing of any clips via social media in country. Modi was Chief Minister of Gujarat during violence in which more than 2,000 people were killed, most of them Muslims, according to rights groups. He ran western state from 2001 until his election as Prime Minister in 2014 and briefly faced travel ban by United States over riots.

Students’ union of New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), long seen as bastion of left-wing politics, said on Twitter it would screen documentary, India: Modi Question, at its office at 9pm on Tuesday.

Published in The Daily National Courier, January, 25 2023

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