Anil, son of former trade union minister and parliamentary leader his AK Antony, has left the party. Anil Antony announced his resignation from all positions in Parliament Wednesday morning. He tweeted his resignation.
The decision came a day after his controversial BBC documentary about Prime Minister Modi was disputed. I have resigned my role in @incindia @INCKerala. An intolerant call for the retraction of tweets by those fighting for free speech. @facebook wall of hate/abuse by people helping hike to encourage love! Hypocrisy is your name! life goes on. Edit the dictionary below.
Supporting BJP in documentary controversy
Anil Antony said Tuesday that British broadcasters and those who support and accept the views of former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw are setting a dangerous precedent for Indian institutions. Because Jack Straw was the mastermind behind the 2003 Iraq War. He feels this undermines our sovereignty, despite our significant differences with the BJP.
“Despite significant differences with the BJP, the BBC, a British national channel with a long history of prejudice, and India, which has views on the Indian agency of Jack Straw, the mastermind behind the Iraq war, I think the people of the United States are united: setting a dangerous precedent will undermine our sovereignty,” he tweeted on Tuesday.
Kerala parliament announces screening of documentary.
Meanwhile, the Kerala State Legislature Department has announced that it will screen the documentary. His DYFI, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) student body, also announced on his Facebook page on Tuesday that it will be screened in the state. The left-wing student group SFI also made a similar announcement. At the same time, the BJP has called the decision to screen this documentary a treason. The BJP called on the prime minister to intervene immediately and stop such attempts.
Anil Anthony, who criticized then-Prime Minister Narendra Modi amid a bitter debate over a documentary about the 2002 Gujarat riots, said Tuesday he sees the BBC as a biased state broadcaster with a long history. He called former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who appeared in the first part of the documentary, and told him about the “covert” investigation being conducted by the then-British government, the brain behind the Iraq war.
