The demand for action against Modi on the Gujarat Muslim killing riots began to gain momentum

Washington: After the successful screening of the BBC documentary 'India: The Modi Question', filmmakers from various fields urged the American media to blame Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the 2002 massacre in Gujarat. Hold Modi accountable.

The BBC documentary was shown to a panel at the National Press Club (NPC) in Washington, according to the World News Agency. The panel of filmmakers included various American media representatives, an eyewitness, Imran Dawood, and people with first-hand knowledge of the riots.

After the screening of the film, the eyewitness accounts and those with first-hand information also gave answers to the inter-film panel and demanded the American media to bring out the facts of the Gujarat riots and hold Modi accountable.

A statement issued after the screening of the film by the National Press Club in Washington said that the film featured on-the-scene BBC reports and interviews with then-British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.

According to the National Press Club, the film also describes a British Foreign Office report in which Foreign Secretary Jack Straw confirmed the killing of at least 2,000 Muslims and wrote that this massacre was a clear example of Muslim genocide. There is evidence.

A senior Gujarat police official, Sanjeev Bhatt, said he was present at several meetings after the riots and had testified against Modi in the Indian Supreme Court's 2011 riots inquiry.

Sanjeev Bhatt revealed that the then Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi had ordered the police not to do anything till the end of the riots ie for three days and thus the police sat on their hands.

Sanjeev Bhatt also protested and testified against Modi, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019 on an old charge.

Similarly, Imran Dawood, an eyewitness to the riots among the moviegoers, told the panelists that fanatical rioters targeted Muslims and used exactly the same tactics as Nazi Germany.

It should be noted that this BBC documentary covers the massacre of Muslims in the Indian state of Gujarat during the 2002 Muslim riots during Modi's prime ministership and the subsequent events.

The documentary also highlights the role of the then Chief Minister of Gujarat and current Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Gujarat riots, for which the Modi government banned the screening of the film in India.

The Modi government of India, a so-called secular state and a claimant to being the world's largest democracy, did not stop at this ban, but twice raided the BBC offices in New Delhi on the pretext of taxation.