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| Figures speaks contrary to Mehbooba's assertion | | Officials say PDP gets 452 news items in 20 days | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Mar 23
The figures available on the record speaks contrary to the assertion made by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti against the government run Radio Kashmir, Srinagar and Doordarshan accusing it of being biased against the party.
Mehbooba had accused the Central Government-controlled electronic media of being brazenly biased towards her party as "authorities were not only ensuring bare minimum coverage of the PDP functions and public meetings, but these institutions have, shockingly, also become a party to the anti-PDP propaganda".
However, observers believe that the allegations have been leveled to ensure complete coverage ahead of the next assembly elections. "This is a pressure tactics", says an official of Doordarshan Kendra, Srinagar adding, "We know what we have been doing and no body can challenge our unbiased and professional approach".
The figures also speak contrary to the claims of Mehbooba. Radio Kashmir's Deputy Director (News) Gurjeet Malik said that the radio has aired news items of PDP leaders 452 times in last about 20 days.
"The news items comprised about 30,000 words and exclude voice-over stories", she said adding, "If we include the Voice-Over too the total words exceeds 60,000".
She said that the officials in the organisation were trying to justify the coverage of all the political parties in a short span news bulletins and other related programmes. |
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