Govt wants that attention, a lot of people don't seem to understand how this works.

Govt's core electorate can be influenced by this issue, but it's a touchy issue they can't talk about directly, only dogwhistle... so what do they do? BBC gives them a nice opportunity to stir the issue back again and remind the base one of of the more important reasons they should vote for their govt again, so they snatch it with both hands and play it up hard.

BBC is not watched in India, I doubt it's watched much anywhere from what I can tell. Neither the BBC, not their viewers matter in Indian elections, only the Indian voter does.

These western journalist morons don't have any insight or perspective when it comes to India, they always send the least talented here and they just take their pre-existing frameworks of politics in their countries and apply them to India, it never works and their works show how stupid and unsophisticated they are.

Also, the documentary is shit, Idk why everyone seems to think it's great. There's a better one called 'Final Solution' by Rakesh Sharma which was made in 2004 that does a better job.

This BBC documentary just interviews a bunch of people, except that relatives of victims... most of them are politically connected people with their agendas, none of them are trustworthy, including the one nominal government representative(Dasgupta). It's a low tier documentary which was completely useless except as a dogwhistle for the current govt.