Rajasthan: Students suspended for watching the BBC documentary in Central University of Rajasthan.
Location: Rajasthan
At least eight students were suspended in Central University of Rajasthan for watching BBC documentary that questions PM Narendra Modi and his leadership during the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide.
The students were suspended after ABVP, the student wing of Hindutva militant group RSS, posted a list of 24 students – who watched the documentary – and hurled abuses against the students while demanding strict action be taken against them. While students were watching the documentary peacefully in their mobile phones, ABVP students tried to disrupt them raising Jai Shree Ram slogans. ABVP students gathered in the basketball court raised hate slogans against students who watched documentary critical of PM Modi. Slogans such as “Desh ke gaddaro ko, goli maaro saalon ko” (shoot the traitors of the country) were raised. A day after the incident, the university registrar issued a notice saying that “In the wake of recent development over a documentary controversy over social media and other media platforms, it has been decided by the Competent Authority to enforce a ban of screening the BBC documentary with immediate effect.”