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Old BBC hand Satish Jacob, who broke the news of Indira Gandhi’s assassination along with Mark Tully and reported on Operation Bluestar amongst others, says: “I am an eternal optimist, and I still feel that the electorate of India will not allow the government to become a dictatorship. But days like this make it very hard to be optimistic.”
'Since Modi came to power, we have watched with frustration and disappointment as his government — time and time again — has suppressed the right of its citizens to a free and independent news media.'
Amid the ban on BCC documentary, various student organisations carried out the screening of the series in their Universities defying prohibitory orders. Many students were also detained by the police.
Russian leader Maria Zakharova has accused the BBC of waging an information war as the controversy over one of its documentary rages on in India.
ABVP, the students told The Wire, had 'created a ruckus' a day ago and forcibly tried to enter the hostel rooms of those who allegedly watched the BBC documentary on Narendra Modi and the Gujarat communal violence of 2002.