Income Tax raids on BBC offices: Government retaliation? – Reader poll results

Published: 17th Feb, 2023 at 5:09 PMUpdated: 23 minutes ago

VM Mansoor Khairy

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Controversies over a BBC documentary titled “India: The Modi Question” that alleged Prime Minister Modi’s involvement in the Gujarat riots had various implications. Before the controversy over the BBC documentary, the Income Tax department raided the company’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai. It has been revealed that the cell phone, laptop and computer of the BBC’s senior officials have been subjected to a serious search in the search which has been going on for three days.

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Many opposition leaders, including the Congress, initially banned the BBC’s documentary due to the Income Tax department’s raids on the BBC. They are currently raiding the BBC office. “This is an undeclared emergency,” he criticized the central government.

Subsequently, a poll was conducted on the Vikatan website with readers about the Income Tax Department’s audit of the BBC. In it, we asked the question ‘Is the Income Tax Department’s inspection of the Delhi and Mumbai offices of BBC News an act of revenge by the central government?

At the end of the survey, was the income tax raid on the BBC an act of revenge? 79 percent of readers answered “yes” to the question, “no; 18 percent of readers have voted as “no opinion” and 3 percent of readers have voted.