BBC Controversial Documentary: BBC documentary part of politics being done in India from abroad: Jaishankar

Referring to the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Tuesday that people who do not dare to enter the political arena are doing 'real politics' through the media. He said the timing of the BBC documentary and George Soros' statement, just a year before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, is no coincidence. This simply means that politics is being done in India from abroad and whether the election season has started in the country or not, it has happened in London and New York.

Trying to create a fundamentalist image of the Prime Minister

In an interview, Jaishankar said, 'I am not a conspiracy theory believer. What I am explaining is that politics is working, there doesn't need to be a conspiracy in this work. Why is it difficult to understand that outside India there are the same ideologies and political forces as India and both are working side by side? Part of the problem is that when political forces in India are not doing so well electorally, they tend to turn to this support system.'

Describing the ruckus as politics by other means, the External Affairs Minister said, “Sometimes India's politics does not originate within its borders, it comes from outside. We are not just debating a documentary or a speech in a European city or a newspaper editorial, we are debating politics as it is being carried out through the media. There is a saying - war by other means. This is politics in another way.

' Jaishankar said that this is an attempt to create a fundamentalist image of India, the central government, and the Prime Minister. This has been going on for a decade. The purpose of planting such news abroad is to advance the anti-India agenda.

The External Affairs Minister asked, “Why all of a sudden there has been an increase in reports and views? Were some of these things not happening earlier, a lot happened in Delhi in 1984, why a documentary was not made on that?

Advising not to be fooled by such an agenda, he said that such people are doing these politics and do not dare to enter this field. They want to do politics by saying that they are NGOs, media organizations etc.

In this sequence, he mentioned the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and anti-agriculture law demonstrations and asked that now a year or two years have passed and where are those people. He also said that most of the international newspapers, especially the English newspapers, did not tell about Article-370 that it was a temporary provision.

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