BAN IS AN OVERREACTION BY CENTRE: SHASHI THAROOR

New Delhi (ANI):

Speaking about the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Gujarat riots in 2002, Congress Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor said that the argument that it would affect India’s sovereignty was not convincing. He added that India’s national security and sovereignty weren’t fragile.

Talking about the BBC documentary, Shashi Tharoor said, “I am glad that the government has said it won’t interfere with freedom of expression. The youth organisation in Kerala organised the screening as a protest against censorship, which I was also in favour of.”

He further added, “The argument that it will affect India’s sovereignty is not convincing. It’s not that fragile.

Our national security and sovereignty are not something that can be affected so easily by a documentary. We are a strong country. The argument that the issue has been laid to rest in a legal sense is accurate.

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