More or less all political parties spoke about freedom of speech of Indian constitution when they were in opposition but they followed differently after came to power. Both Congress and BJP are sailing in same boat on Freedom of Speech.
They tried to take control fourth estate using their power. Government’s are unable to tolerate remarks against them and suppress media at their best. Both Print and Electronic media in India is running on behest of Government’s. This difference we clearly observe in second term of NDA. Except one or two national channels, all news channels are not dared to target in any issues.
They praised when Modi come before at the people while announcing LockDown -1, request people to give claps and when he asked people to lighten the lamps. People were also gave their support to government in this regard. Modi government had faced severe allegations from all corners on migrant labour issue. News Channels start their prime debates by showing the visuals and debate on whether it was right time to shift them from one state to another. Modi government announced Atmanirbhar Bharat package amounts to 20 lakh crore because of pandemic. Finance Minister was presented 5 days presentation on allocation of the budget to different sectors. Media is talking about the huge package and ignored issues of migrant workers.
China was killed 20 Indian soldiers at Galwan Valley incident. There were many rumors that China was intruded into Indian Territory by 1 or 2 kms. Indian government announced ban of Tik Tok and other 59 apps in June last week. Prime debates gave all praises to government decision and considered as Digital Strike. No one knows how much loss to China by banning apps in India. Chinese intrusion into Indian Territory was ignored. Adding to that, Prime Minister Modi went to Ladakh took place in prime time debates. Young Hero Sushant Rajput news occupied major space in all news debates. They prolonged the issue and analyze themselves more than what it really requires.
Even Supreme Court ordered CBI enquiry on his sudden demise, news channels continued to run prime debates every night. On Monday, data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation showed that India’s Gross Domestic Product growth rate had contracted by 23.9% for the April to June quarter. It is the lowest GDP growth in India since 1950 but no channel is ready to take up the issue and discuss. They prefer to give importance on Rhea chat and MDMA drugs to nation’s growth. India has reported 80K positive corona cases on daily. State governments objected the centers two options on GST. BJP can’t digest the huge number of dislikes for Modi’s Mannkibaat in Facebook. None of these are as important as Rhea for national channels. They are intentionally doing damage to the nation. Thanks to Social media to lashed out lowest GDP in Q1 of 2020-2021. Yesterday, government did its second digital strike by announced ban of 118 apps including PUBG and Webchat. One can’t stop the internal agony and frustration of the people by controlling the media.
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