With Tweet Against "Censorship", Trinamool's Mahua Moitra Shares BBC Link

The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry has asked for links to the first episode of the BBC documentary be blocked, sources have said.

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Sunday shared the link to a documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and Prime Minister Narendra Modi produced by the BBC, which has been banned by the government. Sorry, Haven't been elected to represent world's largest democracy to accept censorship.Here's the link. Watch it while you can.(Takes a while to buffer though) https://t.co/nZdfh9ekm1

Her post came a day after the central government, according to sources, ordered Twitter and YouTube to take down links to the first episode of the multi-part documentary titled "India: The Modi Question".

The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry told the two social media giants to block the first episode of the BBC documentary, people familiar with the matter said, a day after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak distanced himself from the documentary series, saying he "doesn't agree with the characterisation" of his Indian counterpart in the UK's parliament by Pakistan-origin MP Imran Hussain.