“In India, this is something (Gujarat genocide 2002) that happened 21 years ago that the Supreme Court has ruled on. And that people including Muslims feel we now should put behind us,“ senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor said talking on the recent BBC documentary that questions Narendra Modi’s leadership during Gujarat Muslim genocide 2002.
“So if India has moved on from this tragedy without in any way casting aspersions on those who believe that the full truth was not indeed revealed by the official investigations. Nonetheless we moved on why should a foreign television channel open the old wounds is a fair question,” said Tharoor in an interview with prominent journalist Barkha Dutt.
He went on to say: “But I wonder weather to a great extent the problem was not the reaction of the government to the BBC documentary because if the government hadn’t gone over the top in condemning it by thereby drawing attention to something which wasn’t otherwise available in India. If they then hadn’t started censoring it, taking it off YouTube, taking it off every other means of accessing this in India perhaps this entire overreaction… it need not have drawn so much attention and India could indeed have move on. I mean I was a bit bemused by the vehements of the government’s reaction because frankly my on git instinct would have been that a mature democracy could simply ignored it and said you know people can say what they like we’ve got more important things to deal with in today’s India and that might have been a more mature way of moving on.”
The documentary has triggered a massive row nationally as well internationally.
Meanwhile talking on the documentary, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi yesterday alleged that the Union government was suppressing the truth by banning the press and using institutions like ED and CBI against the people of the country.
The first episode of the BBC’s two-part documentary titled India: The Modi Question was released on January 17 and the second episode was released on 24 January.
The first epiose alleges that a team sent by the British government had found that Modi, who was the chief minister of Gujarat when the genocide took place, was “directly responsible for a climate of impunity” that led to the violence against Muslims.
The second episode is about the Islamophobic events after Modi became PM in 2014 including passage of CAA, Hindu mob lynchings and Delhi pogrom.
India has blocked the documentary’s airing, saying that even sharing any clips via social media is barred.
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