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Ever since the British Broadcasting Company (BBC)’s documentary on 2002 Gujarat riots “India: The Modi Question” was released, it has landed itself in controversy with the Centre blocking the online links saying that even sharing of any clips via social media is barred.

The documentary questions Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the riots. Directions to block the clips from being shared have been issued using emergency powers available to the government under the country’s information technology rules.

Soon after, several opposition parties including Congress and TMC lashed out at BJP. TMC MPs Mahua Moitra and Derek O’Brien on Sunday shared the link to the controversial BBC documentary on Sunday challenging the government.

Here are top developments in the BBC Documentary Row:

• Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday attacked the BJP saying that the party could not stomach the ‘truth’ documented by the UK’s national broadcaster. Calling the BJP government at the Centre fascist, Chowdhury said India needs a secular and a more tolerant government, an ANI report said.
• A Supreme Court-appointed investigation had found no evidence of wrongdoing by PM Modi, who was chief minister of Gujarat when the riots broke out in February 2002.
• Centre has issued orders to Twitter to block over 50 tweets linking to the video of the documentary and YouTube has been instructed to block any uploads of the video, a Reuters report said.
• Narendra Modi was the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat when it was gripped by communal riots that left more than 1,000 people dead, by government count.

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