Last Updated: January 28, 2023, 10:55 IST
Presidency University, Kolkata students hold protests following power cut during BBC documentary screening
More than 100 students at Jadavpur University have reportedly watched the controversial BBC documentary on 2002 Gujarat riots, with a Left student’s body having arranged its screening.
More than 100 students at Jadavpur University have reportedly watched the controversial BBC documentary on 2002 Gujarat riots, with a Left student’s body having arranged its screening.
The Centre has recently issued directions for blocking multiple YouTube videos and Twitter posts sharing links to the documentary ’India: The Modi Question’, which claims to have investigated certain aspects relating to the 2002 riots when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the chief minister of the state.
The Student Federation of India (SFI), a Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s arm, said the police or institute authorities did not interfere with the screening at Jadavpur University on Thursday.
SFI state unit assistant secretary Subhajit Sarkar had said that the student’s body was to hold another screening at Presidency University on Friday. Authorities at Presidency are yet to give a formal nod, but “we will still go ahead with the show”, he had said. However, following a power cut during the screening, the students began protests claiming the varsity authorities intentionally disrupted the screening.
Sarkar, a former Presidency student, also claimed, “The varsity has effected a power cut at the badminton court, where the screening was supposed to be held. We will now use the common room for the show.” An official at the university, however, said the power cut happened due to technical reasons.
He stated that no such documentary was being shown on the university premises.
Meanwhile, All India Students’ Association (AISA), another Left body, said it will hold another screening of the documentary at Jadavpur University on Friday. The Centre also ordered YouTube to take down copies of the document.
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