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| Another attack on Fourth Estate | | Speaker mauls scribes' pride | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 27: The on-going budget session of the Legislative Assembly (LA) has been no different for the scribes. Last year they were `persecuted' and today their pride was mauled on the floor of the house. The news makers became news once again as they staged a dharna outside the Assembly Complex.
The media persons boycotted the LA proceedings and walked out of the House when the Speaker stated that media was `subservient' to us. "They (media persons) have to do what we tell them to do", he said. His statement evoked a severe response from the media persons who walked out in protest and then staged a dharna for two hours outside the Assembly complex.
Expressing solidarity with them, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislators also walked out and joined the agitating media persons.
The media have decided to boycott the LA proceedings till the Speaker withdraws his comments.
The LA issued three breach of privilege notices against the scribes last year. Noted journalist, Ahmad Ali Fayaz's disclosures about Chief Minister's advisor and chief whip of National Conference, Mubarak Gul on February 28 in Early Times surprised one and all.
Fayaz had written about Gul's Doordarshan work order. Fayaz was directed to explain his position. While he stood by his story, Mubarak Gul said he was an artist and had received the work order when he was not an MLA. His contention was accepted. Proofs produced by Fayaz in support of his story went in vain.
Soon after renowned cartoonist of the state and Editor Srinagar Times, Bashir Ahmad Bashir was also summoned to Jammu for similar reasons. He had published a cartoon in his daily depicting `sad state of affairs' in the legislative assembly. Bashir was in high spirits and desirous of going to Jammu to defend his cartoon. However, he was later told that his presence on the floor of the house was not needed.
Another respected editor, R S Gill appeared before the speaker to defend a breach of privilege motion against him. Gill also stood by his story Best Legislator' V/S Upright Principal published in The Northlines on March 25, 2010.
While senior journalists believe that the LA had grown increasingly intolerant in Omar's era, the National Conference led government boasts of its `sacrifices' to uphold freedom of press. |
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