A BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the 2002 Gujarat riots that has sparked controversy is a 'conspiracy' against India, said Goa Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai on Thursday. The 'character assassination of the prime minister' amounts to an onslaught, insult and a malicious act against the country, said the governor during his address after inspecting a Republic Day parade near Panaji.

India's Ministry of External Affairs has criticised the documentary titled 'India: The Modi Question' as a 'propaganda piece' that lacks objectivity and reflects a colonial mindset. Governor Pillai said that the present controversy was 'ill-motivated', adding in the same breath that he was 'not criticising Britain which is one of the friendly countries of India now'.