TIWN Nov 27, 2018
AGARTALA, Nov 27 (TIWN): Amid 32.2% unemployment rate, poverty, hundreds of unfulfilled promises after 8 months of BJP Govt in Tripura no organization, association is able to protest under BJP era and gradually voices are killed, democracy has been murdered at its worst. Dreaming for HIRA, state Tripura voted for BJP, IPFT but today BJP monster era has turned suffocating under police harassment, with the latest incident of Dipak Debnath's arrest from Bamutia after he shared Tripurainfoway.com news. Four years history says, media faced highest ever threat under Modi Govt and journalists faced various criminal cases, harassment under the Govt. Also Govt is allegedly interfering the privacy of people and engaged "paid hackers" which is a criminal offence by the Home Ministry. In Tripura many TV channels were forced to shutdown, newspaper editors were threatened, time to time tracked and sources said that many Ministers, journalists phones were tracked. One 40 years old newspaper Daily-Desher-Katha was shutdown and the District Magistrate during hearing called RNI Office and cancelled the registration. Since beginning till day, TIWN continues to fight against corruption regardless CPI-M to BJP era and their bootlicking "evergreen" IAS / IPS officers.
In September, Gauri Lankesh, editor of the weekly Lankesh Patrike – a magazine that has been described as an “anti-establishment” publication – was shot dead at her residence in Bengaluru. Two journalists were killed in Tripura – Santanu Bhoumik from the news channel Din Raat while he was covering clashes between two rival tribal associations, and Sudip Datta Bhaumik, a senior journalist with Syandan Patrika, who was shot dead by a Tripura State Rifles trooper during an altercation in Bodhjung Nagar in Tripura.
Journalists faced the most number of attacks from the police and from politicians, as the table below shows. These include the journalists injured during the violence following the arrest of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Singh in August 2017. Television vans were set on fire and reporters and camera persons were injured in the clashes.
And the series of journalists killing continued. Media watchdog Reporters without Borders expressed alarm on Wednesday about India, with seven journalists killed in the past 18 months and a sharp rise in online abuse and harassment.
The latest murder of a journalist was that of Shujaat Bukhari, editor of Rising Kashmir daily in Kashmir, gunned down outside the paper’s office in Srinagar on June 14.
Reporters in India often face harassment and intimidation by police, politicians, bureaucrats and criminal gangs.
In Tripura after handing over to CBI both the journalists cases has become slow, neither there is any push from the BJP led State Govt.
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