Rahul, Priyanka slam UP govt over arrest of Kanojia, two others
Team Udayavani, Jun 11, 2019, 5:08 PM IST
New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the arrest of scribe Prashant Kanojia and the editor and the head of a Noida-based TV channel.
Rahul Gandhi also claimed that if every journalist who files a false report or peddles fake, vicious RSS/BJP sponsored propaganda about him is put in jail, most newspapers or news channels would face a severe staff shortage.
Retweeting Rahul Gandhi’s tweet, AICC in-charge Uttar Pradesh (East) Priyanka Gandhi also attacked the state government over the issue.
“Instead of working on the issues of the people, the UP government is cracking the whip of fear on journalists, farmers and representatives,” she tweeted in Hindi.
Kanojia, Anuj Shukla, who is the editor of Noida-based TV channel Nation Live, and its head Ishika Singh, have faced police action over the release of alleged objectionable content against the UP chief minister.
Rahul and Priyanka’s attack on the UP government came on a day the Supreme Court ordered the immediate release of Kanojia, saying the fundamental right to liberty is “sacrosanct” and “non-negotiable”.
The Editors Guild had on Sunday condemned the arrest of Kanojia, Singh and Shukla, describing the police action as an “authoritarian misuse of laws” and an effort to intimidate the press.
An FIR was registered against Kanojia at Hazratganj police station in Lucknow on Friday night in which it was alleged that the accused made “objectionable comments against the CM and tried to malign his image”.
Kanojia had shared a video on Twitter and Facebook where a woman is seen speaking to reporters of various media organisations outside the CM’s office, claiming that she had sent a marriage proposal to Adityanath.
A group of journalists and activists had held a protest here on Monday over the arrests.
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