BBC Documentary Row: After JNU, Screening Planned at Jamia, Security Beefed Up

New Delhi: A day after the ruckus at JNU, a students’ union at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University announced the screening of the BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday evening.

The screening of the documentary ‘India: The Modi Question’ is scheduled to take place at 6 pm. Security around the university has been tightened.

Meanwhile, four student of members of the Students Federation of India (SFI) were detained for allegedly creating a ruckus outside Jamia over the screening of the BBC documentary today, the Delhi Police said.

This comes despite a prior notice by the university administration, asking students to refrain from screening the BBC documentary.

The documentary has not been screened in India.

The government had on Friday directed social media platforms Twitter and YouTube to block links to the documentary titled ‘India: The Modi Question’.

The Ministry of External Affairs has trashed the documentary as a “propaganda piece” that lacks objectivity and reflects a colonial mindset.

On Tuesday, the administration at the Jawaharlal Nehru University allegedly cut power and the internet to stop the students’ union from screening the controversial BBC documentary on PM Modi.

Later, the students staged protests and claimed they were attacked when they were watching the documentary on their mobile phones as the screening could not be held.