New Delhi: The central government has described the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) documentary on the Gujarat riots as “part of propaganda” and said it cannot “glorify” such a film.

The BBC documentary on PM shows propaganda, biased and colonial mindset and we don’t know what is the agenda behind it.

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said on Thursday that the recently aired BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi is part of propaganda that questions his leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

There haa been sharp reactions to the BBC’s two-part series “India: The Modi Question”.

“We think this is part of propaganda to carry forward a particular narrative and there is an agenda behind it,” a State Department spokesperson said. When Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat state, there were fierce riots there.

Significantly, the committee formed on the directions of the Supreme Court to investigate the Gujarat riots had given a clean chit to Narendra Modi. The committee did not find any evidence against Modi in the case.

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New Delhi: Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said that farmers will not permit central government to implement the contentious three-farm bills in the country and they are protesting against it for the last 10 months but are ready to agitate for 10 years, if required.

Speaking at a mahapanchayat held by farmers in Panipat on Sunday before the bandh, Tikait said that it has been 10 months of this agitation but BJP-led union government is not willing redress the genuine demands of the farmers and government must listen with open ears that even if we have to agitate for 10 years we are ready.

Several senior farmer leaders, including Tikait and Gurnam Singh Chaduni, addressed the mahapanchayat. Chaduni urged all sections of society to join the Bharat Bandh and observe a peaceful protest.

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