LONDON: A British MP has slammed BBC’s coverage of the consecration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
Conservative MP Bob Blackman said on Thursday, on the floor of the House of Commons: “Last week Ram Mandir was consecrated in Ayodhya—the birthplace of Lord Ram—in Uttar Pradesh in India. That caused great joy to Hindus across the world. Sadly, BBC reported that it was the site of the destruction of a mosque, forgetting that it had been a temple for more than 2,000 years before that, and that the Muslims had been allocated a five-acre site adjacent to the town on which to erect a mosque.”
He called for a debate on “the impartiality of the BBC and its failure to provide a decent record of what is going on all over the world.”
Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt responded that a recent BBC review had raised very important “issues”.
The BBC received so many complaints about an online article on the event that it published a response that states: “Some readers felt that the article was biased against Hindus and used inflammatory language. They also objected to us reporting in the headline that the temple had been built on the site of a 16th- century mosque which we explained had been torn down by Hindu mobs in 1992. We believe that to be a fair and accurate account of what happened. We do not agree the article was demeaning to Hindus.”
Insight UK has published an open letter to the BBC, Ofcom and House of Lords criticising the BBC’s ” biased coverage against Hindus”, stating that the BBC article failed to mention that a Muslim archaeologist discovered the Ram temple under the mosque and also leaving out that a Muslim was part of the unanimous decision made by the Supreme Court to give the land to Hindus.
After BJP leader Swapan Dasgupta was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today about the Ram Mandir consecration on Jan 23, he wrote on X: “Earlier, the BBC used to try and feign even-handedness. Now, it doesn’t even to try to conceal its vilification of Hindu feelings.”
Conservative MP Bob Blackman said on Thursday, on the floor of the House of Commons: “Last week Ram Mandir was consecrated in Ayodhya—the birthplace of Lord Ram—in Uttar Pradesh in India. That caused great joy to Hindus across the world. Sadly, BBC reported that it was the site of the destruction of a mosque, forgetting that it had been a temple for more than 2,000 years before that, and that the Muslims had been allocated a five-acre site adjacent to the town on which to erect a mosque.”
He called for a debate on “the impartiality of the BBC and its failure to provide a decent record of what is going on all over the world.”
Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt responded that a recent BBC review had raised very important “issues”.
The BBC received so many complaints about an online article on the event that it published a response that states: “Some readers felt that the article was biased against Hindus and used inflammatory language. They also objected to us reporting in the headline that the temple had been built on the site of a 16th- century mosque which we explained had been torn down by Hindu mobs in 1992. We believe that to be a fair and accurate account of what happened. We do not agree the article was demeaning to Hindus.”
Insight UK has published an open letter to the BBC, Ofcom and House of Lords criticising the BBC’s ” biased coverage against Hindus”, stating that the BBC article failed to mention that a Muslim archaeologist discovered the Ram temple under the mosque and also leaving out that a Muslim was part of the unanimous decision made by the Supreme Court to give the land to Hindus.
After BJP leader Swapan Dasgupta was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today about the Ram Mandir consecration on Jan 23, he wrote on X: “Earlier, the BBC used to try and feign even-handedness. Now, it doesn’t even to try to conceal its vilification of Hindu feelings.”