Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 27: The BBC documentary about PM Modi was screened on Thursday at the University of Hyderabad by the Students Federation of India (SFI), while the RSS-affiliated ABVP screened the divisive movie The Kashmir Files there.
Over 400 students attended the contentious two-part BBC documentary series India: The Modi Question’s Republic Day showing at the university, which was a success, according to the SFI.
Days previously, a different group of students played the video on campus without permission or prior notification, which prompted the university administration to request a report. The ABVP claimed to have filed a police complaint after protesting the screening.
“More than 400 students turned up for the screening organised by SFI, rejecting the false propaganda and the attempts of ABVP to create unrest and the administration to disrupt the screening of the documentary. SFI-HCU salutes the student community who have stood for freedom of expression and campus democracy,” SFI HCU said in a post.
The Kashmir Files was screened on the university campus that day as a response by the ABVP HCU students.
The University registrar asserted that there were no adverse incidents during the checks and that the campus was calm, but the ABVP claimed that its representatives were mistreated by security personnel there.
The BBC documentary claims to have looked at specific aspects of the 2002 Gujarat riots, which occurred at a time when Prime Minister Modi was the state’s chief minister. Last week, the government had ordered social networking sites Twitter and YouTube to remove links to the BBC documentary.
