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India students watch BBC film on Modi despite power cut

Modi was chief minister of Gujarat in 2002 when more than 2,000 people were killed, most of them Muslims [File: Pankaj Nangia/AP]

A top Indian university cut off power and internet supply on campus before a screening by its students’ union of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi that India has dismissed as propaganda, broadcaster NDTV reported.

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in the capital New Delhi had threatened disciplinary action if the documentary was screened, saying the move might “disturb peace and harmony” on campus.

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