Vice-President Dhankhar hits out at BBC: ‘Cannot treat Supreme Court’s order on Gujarat riots as irrelevant’

Hitting out at the BBC for its documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar Wednesday said that the Supreme Court’s judgment cannot be “irrelevant”.

Dhankar was speaking in Bengaluru during the virtual inaugural event of the Bengaluru Indian Institute of Management’s (IIM) Management Development Centre block on their new campus.

Referring to the discussion around the documentary on the Gujarat riots, Dhankhar, without naming the media organisation, said those believing in nationalism can’t choose to remain silent when one tries to play politics “the other way around”.