Tripura Journalists Protest Towards Alleged Menace By Biplab Deb

Biplab Deb didn’t retract his remark however stated he didn’t imply to threaten anybody. (FILE)

Agartala:

Carrying black masks, journalists from varied components of Tripura on Thursday held an illustration right here to protest in opposition to Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb’s alleged risk issued to them final month and “assaults” on scribes.

Media individuals underneath the banner of the Meeting of journalists (AOJ) gathered in entrance of the Rabindra Bhavan in Agartala and held a sit-in.

“We’ll proceed our motion till he (Deb) withdraws his remark, which is unbecoming of a chief minister,” AOJ Convener Sekhar Datta stated.

Mr Deb, whereas laying the inspiration stone for a particular financial zone at Sabroom in South Tripura district on September 11, had stated that some newspapers try to confuse the folks of the state about its COVID-19 state of affairs and he’ll “not forgive” them.

“Some newspapers try to confuse folks…. Historical past is not going to forgive them, folks of Tripura is not going to forgive them and I Biplab Deb is not going to forgive them. I do no matter I say, historical past is testimony to that,” Mr Deb had stated.

This was construed as a risk to them by journalists who demanded that the CM withdraw it.

Mr Deb didn’t retract his remark however stated he didn’t imply to threaten anybody in his speech.

Through the protest, AOJ Chairman Subal Kumar Dey stated that two groups of senior scribes not too long ago toured completely different components of the state and located that skilled rights of journalists within the districts are violated.

“Journalists working in district and sub-divisional cities are working underneath extreme strain. No authorities official desires to talk to them as a consequence of a gag order issued by the federal government and mafias are dictating how information stories must be revealed,” Mr Dey claimed.

The AOJ had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union House Minister Amit Shah and the Press Council of India, alleging that at the very least six journalists had been assaulted for the reason that CM’s September 11 assertion, and regardless of complaints being filed, no progress within the investigation has been present in any of them.

Journalists had additionally met Governor RK Bais, searching for his intervention to finish the alleged intimidation of journalists and held protest by carrying black badges on the Gandhi Jayanti.

Mr Dey alleged that at the very least 25 journalists had been attacked within the state for the reason that BJP-IPFT authorities got here to energy in March 2018.

He additionally stated their agitation has obtained solidarity from main journalists our bodies corresponding to Editors Guild, European Journalist Union, Bangladesh Sangbadik Sangha, Mukto Prakash, Dhaka, and Indian Newspaper Society.

(This story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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