Kerala Journalists March Against Governor Amid His Fight With State's CPM Government
NDTV
Governor Arif Mohammad Khan had on Monday expelled 2 journalists from a briefing he was addressing; and this wasn't the first time
Journalists in Kerala today held a protest march to the Raj Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram after Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Monday expelled two journalists from a briefing he was addressing at an Earnakulam guest house. He accused the two journalists and their channels — both top news outlets in Malayalam news — of bias towards the Pinarayi Vijayan government with which the he has had a series of run-ins.
The Kerala Union of Working Journalists called for the one-kilometre march from the museum to the governor's house as Monday wasn't the first time he behaved this way with journalists.
In the backdrop of squabbles with the CPM government — which accuses him of acting at the BJP's behest — he calls some journalists and news outlets "cadre media" and ordered last month that they not be allowed at a press conference he was addressing.
On Monday, he "challenged" the state government to "barge into my office" or "attack me on the road". He was reacting to the announcement by the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) that a massive protest would be held in front of Raj Bhavan on November 15.
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