New Delhi
The Congress on Tuesday alleged that the raids on journalists linked with online portal NewsClick were a fresh distraction from the explosive findings of the caste survey in Bihar and the growing demand for a caste census across the country. Delhi Police’s Special Cell on Tuesday morning conducted raids at 30 premises connected with NewsClick as well as its journalists’ houses, triggering outrage among scribes. Congress’ media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said the early morning raids on contributing journalists at Newsclick comes as a fresh distraction from the explosive findings of caste census in Bihar and the growing demand for caste census across the country. When he faces questions from out of syllabus, he resorts to the only counter he has in his predictable syllabus – DISTRACTION, Khera said on X. Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor slammed the government over the action against the portal, saying these are not the actions of a mother of democracy but of an insecure and autocratic state. Why does a government as strong and authoritarian as this one is, feel threatened by a news website? And that too, one that is not even ranked very high in reach or readership? Intolerance is unworthy of everything that India represents, Tharoor said. The government has disgraced itself and our democracy today, he said in a post on X. Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate also slammed the government over the raids. Despite an army of sycophants, some journalists still dare to speak the truth.But the Prime Minister has a special problem with those who speak the truth and those who ask questions, she alleged.
