The British broadcaster has recently aired a two-part documentary ‘India: The Modi Question’. In the BBC documentary, Jack Straw says that there were serious claims that Modi played a “proactive part in pulling back police and in tacitly encouraging the Hindu extremists”. The Indian government’s reaction to the BBC documentary is evidence of how the Modi regime does not want its own citizens to see a truth the world has known for over two decades. The BBC documentary is another stark reminder that Modi played an active role in the Gujarat pogrom and has built his political career on his anti-Muslim and pro-Hindutva policies. India’s pluralism may always have been exaggerated but under Modi it has effectively been obliterated.
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