The documentary, “India: The Modi Question,” found Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be “directly responsible” for enabling the 2002 Gujarat anti-Muslim riots that led to the death of 2,000 Muslims.
that both Twitter and Google’s YouTube had complied and enforced the ban.
Arindam Bagchi, a spokesperson for the Indian government, said on Thursday that the documentary had been led from a “colonial mindset.” “The bias, the lack of objectivity, and frankly a continuing colonial mindset, are blatantly visible,” Bagchi said. Modi has been accused of enabling the riots and was accused of having said that Hindus should be allowed to vent their anger. In a sworn statement in 2011, a senior police officer who worked during the riots alleged that Modi told officials that the Muslim community needed to be taught a lesson,
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