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Patna,(BiharTimes): While chief minister Nitish Kumar declined to make any comment on Justice Markanda Katju’s statement that there is no Press freedom in Bihar the Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad has welcomed his statement.
Talking to mediaperson at Sikandrabad in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, where he went to campaign for his new samdhi, who is contesting on the Congress ticket, Lalu said that Katju is right in his observations. The media is working under intense pressure in Bihar. “If anyone will try to humiliate him I would fight for him,” the former chief minister of Bihar said. |
Nitish, on the other hand, said that it is not necessary that he should speak on all the issues.
But his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi said that Katju is in the habit of giving such statements to earn popularity and hit headlines. He was particular disturbed by the way the present regime was compared with the Lalu regime so far Press freedom is concerned.
Health minister Ashwini Choubey also came to the support of Nitish. He said that there is freedom of Press in Bihar and one can speak anything. It was only in Emergency that Press censorship was imposed in India, he added.
Meanwhile, the Press Council of India President, Justice Markanda Katju on Saturday once again reiterated in Gaya that there was Press freedom during the Lalu regime, but not now.
He even ridiculed the tall claim of the state government that Bihar had made a lot of development. He said that throughout his journey from Patna to Gaya he found no sign of development.
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