News channel critical of Mamata goes off air
Tribune News Service
Kolkata, May 21
Opposition parties have condemned the Mamata Banerjee-led government for its alleged action against a TV news channel.
CLP leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, while criticising the state government for coming down heavily on the channel, said Mamata could never take criticism.
“Last evening, under sustained administrative pressure, cable networks in & around Kolkata pulled the plug on @calcutta_news, a tv network that was mildly critical of @MamataOfficial govt. I understand there is pressure to do the same to Sadhna News,” pro-BJP Rajya Sabha member Swapan Dasgupta tweeted.
“The sustained attack on news & opinions that are not to the TMC’s liking is a feature of this state government that sustains itself on crude propaganda & sycophancy. I will do my utmost to help publications & TV networks maintain their independence in West Bengal”, Dasgupta added in another tweet which was marked to I&B Minister Prakash Javdekar.
The BJP state unit questioned the “silence” of Editors Guild of India, saying “The media is afraid to carry stories critical of the CM. Calcutta News, which upheld the voices of dissent, is being bullied by the CM and taken off air!”
