New Delhi: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court on behalf of Hindu Sena chief Vishnu Gupta to ban the British media agency BBC. In this Public Interest Litigation (PIL), demanding a ban on BBC, it has been alleged that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is conspiring to break the unity, integrity, and sovereignty of India. Hindu Sena has said in its petition that through the documentary 'India: The Modi Question' based on PM Narendra Modi, not only an attempt was made to tarnish the image of PM Modi, but also to hurt the social fabric of India. BBC has been doing anti-India work since the time of independence and is continuously spreading anti-India propaganda even after independence.
Teesta fabricated evidence against the then CM Narendra Modi by taking money from Congress and tried to topple his government. Now BBC is also doing the same work of spreading lies, due to which the Central Government has banned it. But, interestingly, the Supreme Court, which gave a clean chit to PM Modi, will now hear the case against the ban imposed on BBC's documentary blaming him (Modi).
When Indira Gandhi banned BBC:-
Let us tell you that the Hindu army has given the example of Indira Gandhi's decision while demanding a ban on BBC in its petition taken in 1970. In fact, in 1970, the then Indira Gandhi government banned BBC when a negative picture of India was presented in a show. In 1970, when a documentary series by French director Louis Malle was shown on the BBC, it resulted in the closure of the BBC office in Delhi for two years.
In the summer of 1970, two documentaries by Louis Malle, Calcutta, and Phantom India, were shown on British television. After this broadcast, the Indians settled in Britain strongly criticized the BBC. This voice of protest reached Delhi and the government also got an inkling of it. Indira Gandhi was the PM of the country at that time. Everyday life in India was shown in both these documentaries. The Indian government called the filming biased and misrepresenting India. As a result, BBC was thrown out of India for 2 years. At the same time, in 1975, when Indira Gandhi had imposed an emergency in the country, BBC called back its correspondent Mark Tully from Delhi. However, the Congress which once banned BBC is today taking the side of the controversial documentary made by BBC on PM Modi and despite the government ban, the party is screening it for political gains.
Old dispute between BBC and government:-
In March 2015, the Delhi High Court upheld the decision to ban a BBC documentary. In this documentary, Mukesh Singh, convicted in the Nirbhaya gang rape case of Delhi, was being shown. The internet broadcast of this documentary was also banned by the government. Once again in 2017, the BBC was barred for 5 years from shooting in India's national parks and wildlife sanctuaries. According to the Government of India, this was done because, at that time, India's image was badly damaged due to a BBC documentary related to hunting wild animals.
BBC has also shown fake stories in protest against India:-
In June 2008, there was another confrontation between the Government of India and the BBC. At that time BBC showed footage in a panorama show, in which children were seen working in a workshop. An attempt was made to show how bad the condition of children in India is. There was a lot of ruckus on this and there were allegations of promoting child labor. However, later this story itself turned out to be fake. The BBC's governing body ruled that a major investigative reporting program had created and telecasted fake footage of children stitching clothes in a Bengaluru workshop.
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