Last Update: January 31, 2023, 3:45 PM IST
The BBC documentary on PM Modi has created a massive controversy. (File photo: PTI)
BJP MP and advocate Mahesh Jethmalani on Tuesday linked the series on PM Modi and Gujarat riots by UK broadcaster to Chinese state Huawei
Giving a new angle to the BBC documentary controversy, BJP MP and advocate Mahesh Jethmalani on Tuesday linked the series by the UK broadcaster on PM Modi and the Gujarat riots to Chinese state-linked Huawei.
The BBC’s documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which questioned his leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, has sparked a massive uproar, with the UK broadcaster reprimanded for documenting a “lie” in a “propaganda article”. gave.
tweeting a report by spectator.co.uk, Jethmalani said: “Why is #BBC so anti-India? Because it desperately needs money from Chinese state-linked Huawei (see link) to take it over and push the latter’s agenda (BBC A fellow traveller, Com? Jayaram?) this is a simple cash-promotion deal. The BBC is for sale.”
Why? #BBC So anti-India? Because it desperately needs money from Chinese state-linked Huawei (see link) to take it over and push the latter’s agenda (BBC a fellow traveller, Comrade Jayaram?) this is a simple cash-promotion deal. bbc is for sale https://t.co/jSySg542pl— Mahesh Jethmalani (@JethmalaniM) January 31, 2023
A two-part BBC documentary claims to investigate certain aspects related to the 2002 Gujarat riots when the Prime Minister was Narendra Modi was the chief minister of the state, was dismissed by the Ministry of External Affairs as a “propaganda piece” that lacked objectivity and reflected a “colonial mindset”.
The Spectator report posted by Mahesh Jethmalani – Title: BBC still taking money from acknowledged Huawei – talks about the BBC’s questionable new corporate partnerships, one of them with Huawei, the Chinese tech giant that was banned in 2019 It was approved by the US and banned from the UK’s 5G network in 2020 over security concerns.
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According to the report, Huawei has been accused of assisting Chinese authorities in creating surveillance technology targeting the country’s Uyghur minority population.
“But all this is not enough to stop the BBC, which is still taking Huawei money for its foreign journalism. Advertisements paid for and presented by Huawei featured on BBC.com this week titled ‘The new frontier of education: how can we bridge the education gap and bring bright young minds into the digital future?’ The Spectator reports that the adverts feature ‘UNESCO and Huawei focussing on closing the digital divide’ and gloat about Huawei’s technology initiatives.
The BBC documentary controversy reached the Supreme Court on Monday, which will next week hear petitions challenging the Centre’s decision to halt the controversial series, even as Law Minister Kiren slammed the apex court for “wasting precious time”. attacked the petitioners.
Taking note of the submissions of advocate ML Sharma and senior advocate CU Singh, appearing for veteran journalist N Ram, TMC MP Mahua Moitra and activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan, for urgent listing of petitions against the Centre’s ban on the two-episode BBC series was demanded. With its emergency powers, a bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said it would hear the matter on February 6.
One of the petitioners also alleged that the ban on the documentary ‘India: The Modi Question’ was “mala fide, arbitrary and unconstitutional”.
Reacting strongly, Rijiju tweeted “Thus they waste the precious time of Hon’ble Supreme Court where thousands of common citizens are waiting for justice and seeking date”.
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