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Prominent House of Lords member Rami Ranger calls BBC documentary on PM Modi as 'unfortunate'

| @indiablooms | Feb 20, 2023, at 03:20 am

New Delhi: Lord Rami Ranger, a prominent member of the House of Lords of the UK Parliament has described the BBC documentary on Indian PM Narendra Modi as “unfortunate, ill-timed and ill-informed”.

In an interview with ANI, Lord Rami Ranger also slammed George Soros over his remarks on Hindenburg-Adani row and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said the billionaire Hungarian-American investor has been an “attention seeker”.

Speaking on the documentary, he said: "That was a very unfortunate, ill-timed and ill-informed documentary totally based on a handful of people who are anti-Modi. They went all the way to get Arundhati Roy, who has never been pro-India, pro-Modi, pro-government — to get a few people like that to have their narrative, to show Mr Modi in a bad light. But I have written a letter where I said you have no right to bring out those documents you made when Prime Minister had been vindicated."

“All the courts cleared him – Supreme Court and everything – and then he won two elections that show the popularity. But unfortunately, the success of Mr Modi, the success of India is not palatable to so many people. BBC, as you know, has always been known to bring news from abroad for the home audience for a feel-good factor…this time, this is no longer that India which will take things lying down,” he added.

Close on the heels of a ban on a BBC documentary on the role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots, the national broadcaster of the UK is in news again in India on Tuesday.

The Income Tax officials conducted surveys at the BBC's Delhi and Mumbai offices during the day and confiscated phones and laptops, media reports said.

The surveys were conducted days after a controversy erupted over a BBC documentary series criticizing the role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was earlier the chief minister of Gujarat, during the 2002 Gujarat sectarian riots.

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