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LONDON, UNITED KINGDON, March 1, 2004: Leaders of the Hindu community in Britain are accusing the BBC of biased coverage of allegations made by Awaaz, a group of Muslim and Leftist organizations, that a Hindu charity had collected funds for the Gujarat earthquake and diverted them to extremist organizations. “Although Awaaz has not provided a single figure or fact, the BBC gave three-minutes of coverage to Awaaz’s conjectures and assumptions. On the other hand, they only included one sentence of denial from Sewa,” said Swami Nirliptananda, chair of the Hindu Centre for Communications. Jay Jina, secretary of the Shree Hindu Community Centre in Birmingham said this had not been the first time the BBC has “ignored” Hindus. “There are many instances of this disturbing trend,” he said. “On radio 4’s thought of the day program, they featured only one Hindu in the last 15 months, whereas there were four to five speakers from other religions. It almost seems like Hindus don’t count for the BBC.”

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