Congress in Kerala holds controversial BBC docu's public screening

Thiruvananthapuram: While chaos fumes in the national capital on the screening of the BBC Documentary, in the south, the Congress party screened it here in public on Thursday, NDTV reported.

The Modi government in the Centre has banned its screening in the country, claiming that the documentary s false propaganda.

Many Opposition parties and free speech activists have organised the screening of the documentary or related programmes across the country following the Centre banning the same.

The screening held in Thiruvananthapuram's Shangumugham Beach was after similar protest screenings of the documentary ran in major cities like Delhi, Hyderabad, and Kolkata as well as a Congress student wing NSUI screening in Chandigarh.

The move by Congress in Kerala happens when senior leader AK Antony's son Anil Antony quits the party alleging "intolerant calls to retract a tweet". He was criticised after he said in one of his tweets that the BBC documentary is a "dangerous precedent".

Anil had argued that the documentary gnaws on India's sovereignty, standing up against Congress's stand. Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor said that Anil's argument is immature.

Tharoor asked whether India's national security and sovereignty were so fragile to be affected by a documentary.

Meanwhile, Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi told reporters in Jammu that the truth shines bright and it has the nasty habit of coming to the public. No level of banning, oppression and frightening people will stop the truth from coming out, he said. He questioned censorship, NDTV reports.