The Modi government also targeted foreign media organizations like the BBC in 2023.
The Hindutva Indian government of the BJP led by Narendra Modi also targeted foreign media organizations like the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 2023. According to the Kashmir Media Service, the BBC The release of a documentary on the 2002 Gujarat Muslim massacre drew the ire of the Hindutva Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
In the documentary titled "India: The Modi Question", Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role in the massacre of Muslims has been exposed. It highlighted an earlier unpublished investigative report that held Modi directly responsible for the Muslim-majority riots.
The BJP government banned the film in the country. In response to the documentary, the Indian Income Tax Department began harassing the BBC and raided its offices in New Delhi in February 2021 under the pretext of investigating tax-related issues. The BBC denied any wrongdoing and called the raids an attempt to intimidate. India's ranking on the World Press Freedom Index fell from 138th in 2014 to 150th in 2023 under the BJP government.
In its February 12, 2023 editorial, the New York Times wrote that since Modi took office in 2014, freedom of the press in India is increasingly under threat. The BJP government continues to intimidate, harass, and attack minorities, especially Muslims. Encourages those who do, the BJP government in Gujarat released the perpetrators of mass atrocities from jail and gave them a warm welcome when they came out. It should be remembered that the Modi government stifled journalism in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Many Kashmiri journalists are currently locked up in jails for exposing the atrocities committed by Indian soldiers on innocent Kashmiris.