CPM youth wing screens banned BBC documentary on Kannur university campus, more shows planned in Kerala

Communist Party of India-Marxist's youth wing, the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), kicked off the political storm in Kerala after it screened the banned BBC documentary on Gujarat riots inside the Kannur University's Mangattuparamb campus. The BJP has dubbed the screening of the documentary as "treason".

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Various political groups in Kerala have announced they would screen the controversial documentary in the state. Similar screenings of the documentary, 'India: The Modi Question', have been planned by various wings of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), including the Youth Congress and the SFI -- a left-wing student organisation allied with CPI(M). 

Even as the KPCC minority cell announced that the documentary would be screened in all district headquarters on Republic Day, the BJP has called such moves 'treasonous' and asked the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to intervene and put a stop to such endeavours.

In a complaint to Vijayan, BJP state president K Surendran said that screening the documentary would be tantamount to condoning foreign moves to endanger the country's unity and integrity. He further said that reliving the unfortunate events of two decades ago was aimed at 'fueling religious tensions'.

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