CPI (M) condemns FIRs filed against journalists
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Flags govt. efforts to intimidate, browbeat media
The CPI (M) Central Committee, the very best decision-making physique of the occasion, strongly condemned the latest spate of cases registered against journalists.
At the top of a two-day assembly of the Committee, CPI (M) in a press release stated the Union Home Ministry has intensified assaults against journalists “who have been reporting truthfully the events connected with the farmers protests”.
“Such efforts to intimidate and terrorise journalists have been going on for some time under the BJP administrations in many cases,” the assertion stated.
Since January 28, FIRs have been filed against 9 Indian journalists on expenses of sedition and 9 different provisions of regulation, together with selling communal disharmony, insulting non secular beliefs and assertions prejudicial to nationwide integration.
“Reputed senior journalists have been slapped with these charges on the basis of their personal tweets on social media. This is reprehensible and smacks of efforts to browbeat, intimidate and harass the media,” he occasion stated.
The occasion has reiterated once more that the three farm legal guidelines must be repealed. It stated that when the legal guidelines are scrapped, the federal government can maintain deliberations with farmers and all different stakeholders.
The occasion hoped that the Union funds that can be tabled in Parliament on Monday, will enhance authorities expenditure.
With the West Bengal and Kerala Assembly elections scheduled for April this yr, the CPI(M) occasion congress that was scheduled on the identical time has been postponed for 2022. This provides the overall secretary Sitaram Yechury a further yr within the put up. Party sources stated that this was common. In 2009 when Prakash Karat was holding the put up, the occasion congress was postponed because the schedule clashed with the Assembly elections within the two key States.
