Lord Rami Ranger CBE has in a letter to BBC Director-General, Tim Davie, lodged a strong complaint about the nasty documentary linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Gujarat riots of 2002 that was aired on 17th January.

“The timing of this documentary is sinister; when India assumed the Presidency of G-20, we have our first Prime Minister of Indian origin in Number 10 and we are working for the India-UK Free Trade Agreement,” the letter states.

“I urge you to stop screening the second part to avoid exasperating the tense situation between the Hindus and Muslims in many of our cities,” it further states.

“The Producer has shown a lack of vision, common sense and judgement by producing such an insensitive, one-sided documentary,” the letter states.

“The documentary not only insults the two-times democratically elected Prime Minister of the largest democracy of the world but also the judiciary and Parliament which investigated Mr. Modi rigorously and exonerated him from being involved in the riots in any way,” the letter points out.

“As the Chairman of the Pakistan-Indian and UK Friendship Forum, we have worked for over 25 years to build bridges between two British communities, namely of Indian and Pakistani origin, to improve social cohesion in the United Kingdom. The BBC documentary has opened old wounds by creating hatred between British Hindus and Muslims by attempting to paint India as an intolerant nation where Muslims are persecuted. If this had been the case, the Muslims would have left India by now. On the contrary, the Muslim population of India is more than Pakistan’s and the Muslims of Bangladesh are entering India on a large scale, “ the letter observes.

It is worth remembering the history, the British divided us arbitrarily without any referendum and caused the death over a million innocent people and made over 15 million refugees in the country of their birth. The British generated such hatred that led to three more bloody wars and more loss of life, and now India and Pakistan are nuclear adversaries. Should you not make a documentary to take responsibility for the bloodshed that continues unabated? How about the famine in Bengal and the massacre of innocent people at the Jallianwala Bagh? For the record, diversity is accepted, respected and protected by laws in India. The Indian Constitution accords equality to all regardless of race, religion and gender. I cannot say the same for Pakistan where equality is not accorded to people of other faiths and people, Lord Ram has pointed out in his letter.