PM Modi BBC series row: Stones Thrown At JNU Students Watching

 

The controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to be shown at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University on Tuesday, but those plans were derailed when the university's electricity and internet were cut off. According to reports, the ABVP threw stones at people who were viewing it on their phones.

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 By Milan Sharma, Akshay Dongare, and Arvind Ojha: Stones were allegedly thrown at a group of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students on Tuesday while they were viewing a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The incident took place during a blackout after the JNU administration turned off the campus' electricity.

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1 )  The power was restored a short while after the JNU management turned off the lights on campus.

2 ) Two students were apprehended by left-wing supporters, who said they were the ones throwing the stones. The two, according to them, are members of the ABVP, the student branch of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the BJP's ideological guru. N Sai Balaji, a former president of the Students Union, said that ABVP students had thrown stones at his group.

3 ) We have approached the main entrance in order to assure the protection of the students. We need the electricity restored immediately. Until the electricity is back on, we won't leave the gate. The police are not responding to our calls, he added.

4 )  The students protested outside the police station in a late-night march. After the police promised to check into the situation, the demonstration was later called off. "We reported the event, and the police informed us that they would check into it right away. We provided all parties concerned with names and contact information "Ms. Ghosh reportedly added, per ANI.

5 ) Several opposition figures posted alternate URLs where viewers could see the first of the two parts of the series, criticising the government for their "censorship." Mohua Moitra of the Trinamool Congress tweeted, "Shame that the emperor & courtiers of the world's largest democracy are so insecure (sic)."