Journalists in Kashmir were bribed, intimated, harassed and arrested to suppress truth after abrogation of Article 370: NC's Lok Sabha member Aga Ruhullah
National Conference Lok Sabha member from Srinagar Aga Ruhulla Mehdi said that the journalists in Kashmir were bribed, intimidated, summoned and arrested after August 5, 2019, so that the truth is suppressed and the world doesn’t know the ground reality.
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Mehdi stated that journalists have been booked under PSA and UAPA, Look Out Circulars have been issued and several others have been summoned and interrogated unofficially, which never comes on the public record.
“After abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, the same newspapers, which questioned power before that and gave space to separatist news and sometimes even crossed a line, were either intimidated or bribed to become the mouthpieces of the Lieutenant Governor administration. Their reporting was censored and the final draft was approved by the LG office after 2019 and 2020,” said Mehdi, while addressing a workshop for aspiring journalists at the Constitution Club of India in New Delhi. Mehdi urged the participants to start a content analysis of pre-2019 and post 2019, newspapers of Kashmir to understand the change of stance and reporting.
“LG administration had even put an editor on desk who gave the approvals for what will be published. In Kashmir you may read what happened in Kumbh Mela, but you
