London, Jan.19: UK’s House of Lords Member Lord Rami Ranger has condemned British broadcaster BBC for its two-part series attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In a tweet, Rami condemned BBC’s biased reporting on the two-part series ‘India: The Modi Question’. “@BBC You have caused a great deal of hurt to over a billion Indians; It insults a democratically elected @PMOIndia Indian Police & the Indian judiciary. We condemn the riots and loss of life & also condemn your biased reporting,” Rami tweeted.
He called the programme against Modi “ill thought-out” and an insult to the “largest democracy” of the world.
The series description states: “A look at the tensions between Indian PM Narendra Modi and India’s Muslim minority, investigating claims about his role in 2002 riots that left over a thousand dead.”
Criticising BBC’s reporting, many Twitter users suggested the broadcaster to start a series on the 1943 Bengal famine, which led to 3 million deaths due to malnutrition under then prime minister Winston Churchill.
Churchill, who was part of the western war effort, ordered that food be diverted to well-fed British soldiers instead of starving Indians.
One of the Twitter users suggested that BBC should start ‘UK: The Churchill Question’. Another user told BBC to focus on UK, whose economy is facing headwinds.
