Media Protest Continues

Media for the second consecutive day today boycotted Jammu and Kashmir Assembly session protesting Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone’s remarks that it was under his control’.

The mediapersons, both print and electronic, this morning again assembled outside the Legislative Assembly complex and sat on dharna demanding the Speaker to ‘expunge’ his remarks.

The Speaker’s remarks came yesterday on the floor of the House when opposition raised objection over a media report in a local English Daily levelling corruption charges against Jammu and Kashmir Health Department without disclosing the source.

“There are ethics of journalism and they must disclose the source. They (media) have no right to publish any report against anybody as they are under my control”, the Speaker had said.

The PDP had also moved adjournment motion yesterday to suspend routine business and discuss the issue with the Speaker, who rejected it.

“We are with you and we have also boycotted the Assembly session for today”, Nizam-ud-Din Bhat, Senior party leader told reporters.

He, however, said the next course of action would be decided by the party in the evening.

Earlier, Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad Ali Sagar accompanied by JKNPP leader Harsh Dev Singh on behalf of the government appealed to the mediapersons to resume their duties in the press gallery but in vain.

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