![]() ![]() Some observers believe it was a pogrom that accelerated Mr Modi’s journey to the top office in the country.Ī military commander was later to say in his book that his troops were poised to step in to restore order but waited endlessly to be asked by the state government. This was so, despite overwhelming evidence to suggest that at best he told the police not to intervene as violent Hindu mobs went on the rampage and killed, raped, burned and plundered in Muslim neighbourhoods. That was always going to be the case, considering that Mr Modi had already been given a clean chit by his country’s supreme court in the case of the communal violence, which saw over 2,000 people, predominantly Muslims, slaughtered. Motives were attributed to the BBC for making the documentary but its content was hardly addressed. There’s no point in repeating the details of the documentary contents, as this newspaper’s eloquent India correspondent Jawed Naqvi has covered that aspect well and also reported that the Indian prime minister will remain unscathed from the fallout, particularly in domestic politics. The ‘tax raid’ on the BBC and detention of some of the staff for over 24 hours was no more than a warning. ![]() This mirrors the policies of its western South Asian neighbour and fellow nuclear-armed power Pakistan which also heavily polices media content and, just as in the BJP’s case, either has co-opted major media organisations as partner or simply browbeaten the dissenting ones into silence.
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