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Why Modi doesn’t want India to watch BBC film on Gujarat carnage

Indian PM Narendra Modi has repeatedly denied accusations that he failed to stop the rioting in Gujarat [File: Manish Swarup/AP Photo]

India’s right-wing government has used emergency powers to block the airing of a BBC documentary which questions Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Calling the two-part BBC film, India: The Modi Question, a “propaganda piece”, the government ordered Twitter to take down more than 50 tweets linking to the documentary while YouTube was instructed to block any video uploads.

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