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Rahul's consent was not taken before Natarajan submitted Bill to gag media: Congress | Congress spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi has clarified that a private member's bill on restraining
the media, which was submitted by Meenakshi Natarajan contains the personal views
of the lawmaker, and added that she did not take the approval of Rahul Gandhi
before submitting it. "The bill related to media submitted by Meenakshi Natarajan
in the Lok Sabha is a private member's bill and contains her personal views. These
are not the views of Rahul Gandhi as indicated in a section of media, and his
consent was not taken before submitting the bill," Dwivedi told media here In
her bill, Natarajan had proposed the creation of a seven-member regulatory authority
that could prohibit a news organisation from publishing a report which is viewed
as a national threat. Meanwhile, the General Secretary of the Broadcast Editors'
Association (BEA), N. K. Singh, criticized Natarajan for her poor knowledge of
Indian democracy. "Perhaps Meenakshi Natarajan doesn't understand the elementary
nuances of democracy. Had she studied Article 19-1(A) thoroughly, she wouldn't
have ventured into this kind of exercise and Congress is not going to endorse
it in any case. Even if it does we are not bothered by it. Any government that
does it, will have to suffer serious public anger," warned Singh. He accepted
that some sections of society are angry with the media for its reportage on the
country's biggest scams including the multi-billion rupee, 2G spectrum scam and
the Commonwealth Games (CWG)scam. "There is an element of anger against the media
of late, and that is true. Well, the way we covered the Anna Hazare movement,
the way we covered the anti corruption movement, the way we covered 2G spectrum
and the CWG. These were some of the events where the government got a little unnerved, and validly so, any government would be," said Singh.
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