Kerala Police books BJP workers protesting against BBC documentary screening

The Kerala Police on Wednesday registered a case against the Bharatiya Janata Party protestors for unlawful assembly and traffic disruption in ThiruvananthapuramThe BJP workers were protesting on the streets of Poojapura and Manaveeyam Veedhi where the Democratic Youth Federation of India DYFI and the Youth Congress screened the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra ModiThe Centre has banned the BBC documentary describing it as a propaganda piece designed to push a discredited narrativeOn Monday night January 23 a group of students at Hyderabad Central University HCU organised the screening of the documentary inside the campus The screening was organised by the Student Islamic Organisation SIO and the Muslim Student Federation known as the Fraternity group and over 50 students from these groups attended the screeningAkhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad ABVP student leader Mahesh said We have escalated the matter to the University authorities and have demanded action on the organisers The group is organising screening without permission inside the campus premisesAlso Read AK Antonys son quits Congress cites intolerant calls to retract tweet on PMLater the Hyderabad Police said that they have received the information about the movie screening but no written complaint was lodgedOn Monday administration of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi also warned against screening the BBC documentary on the campus after a group of students released a pamphlet inviting students to a screening of the film at the students unions office at 9 pm on Tuesday January 24The JNU Students Union wrote to the university administration over its firm advisory against the screening of the BBC documentary stating that they do not seek to create any form of disharmony and their purpose is to only watch it on the campus It also mentioned in the letter that the students with voluntary interest would take part in the screeningLater in the night the JNU students marched toward Vasant Kunj police station claiming stone pelting by the members of ABVP while the said documentary was being playedThe protest was later called off after the police assured students of taking up the matter and looking into it immediatelyLast week India denounced the BBC documentary series on Prime Minister ModiWe think this is a propaganda piece designed to push a particular discredited narrative The bias lack of objectivity and frankly continuing colonial mindset are blatantly visible External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said during a weekly media briefing on January 19Meanwhile in a strong response to the BBC documentary more than 300 eminent Indians including retired judges bureaucrats and armed forces veterans signed a statement slamming the British national broadcaster for showing unrelenting prejudice towards India and its leaderThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever