{"id":209197,"date":"2023-01-20T00:31:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=209197"},"modified":"2023-01-20T00:31:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:01:36","slug":"it-is-a-propaganda-piece-india-on-bbc-documentary-on-gujarat-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/it-is-a-propaganda-piece-india-on-bbc-documentary-on-gujarat-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"It is a propaganda piece: India on BBC documentary on Gujarat riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 19 Jan:<\/strong> India on Thursday described a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots as a &#8220;propaganda piece&#8221; designed to push a particular &#8220;discredited narrative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bias, lack of objectivity and continuing colonial mindset are blatantly visible, external affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said at a media briefing while replying to a volley of questions on the documentary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The documentary deals with the riots that broke out in Gujarat when Narendra Modi was the chief minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bagchi said the documentary is a reflection on the agency and individuals that are peddling &#8220;this narrative&#8221; again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It makes us wonder about purpose of this exercise and agenda behind it,&#8221; he said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 19 Jan: India on Thursday described a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots as a &#8220;propaganda piece&#8221; designed to push a particular &#8220;discredited narrative.&#8221; The bias, lack of objectivity and continuing colonial mindset are blatantly visible, external affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said at a media briefing while replying to a volley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-209197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}