The BBC defended its documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “fastidiously researched”, which sought to focus on critical troubles. This comes an afternoon after India criticized the programme as a “propaganda piece” missing objectivity.
“The documentary become fastidiously researched in step with the very best editorial standards,” a BBC spokesperson stated in a declaration, pronounced information organisation PTI.
While making the collection, the UK’s country wide broadcaster approached a variety of voices, the declaration added.
“A extensive variety of voices, witnesses and professionals had been approached, and we’ve got featured a variety of opinions. This consists of responses from humans withinside the BJP. We provided the Indian authorities a proper to answer to the subjects raised withinside the collection. It declined to respond,” it similarly stated.
The BBC stated it become devoted to highlighting critical troubles from round the sector and the documentary collection examines the “tensions among India’s Hindu majority and Muslim minority and explores the politics of India’s PM Narendra Modi with regards to the ones tensions”.
The declaration comes an afternoon after UK PM Rishi Sunak got here out in defence of PM Modi, shutting down Pakistani-foundation Labour MP Imran Hussain, who requested if the British most advantageous agreed with the claims made via way of means of the BBC programme that a few UK Foreign Office diplomats believed that “Modi become immediately responsible (for the Gujarat riots)”.
“The UK authorities’s function on this is clean and long-standing, and it has now no longer changed,” Sunak stated. “Of course, we do now no longer tolerate persecution anywhere, however I am now no longer certain that I agree in any respect with the characterisation that the honorable gentleman has placed forward,” the British high minister stated.
INDIA’S RESPONSE
India condemned the BBC Panorama programme, which has now no longer been screened in India, and disregarded it as a propaganda piece with a questionable time table at the back of it.
“We suppose that that is a propaganda piece, designed to push a selected discredited narrative. The bias, loss of objectivity and persevering with colonial mind-set is blatantly visible,” overseas workplace spokesperson Arindam Bagchi advised newshounds at some stage in a press briefing in New Delhi on Thursday while requested approximately the arguable collection.
Meanwhile, numerous participants of the Indian diaspora withinside the UK have despatched in proceedings to the BBC over the characterisation of PM Modi withinside the collection.
