\n\nDate: Saturday, March 7, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Condemn Ban on Media Channels<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the 48-hour ban imposed on two Malayalam news channels, Asianet News and Media One, by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. This drastic action by the Modi government is a direct assault on the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The reasons stated in the order cites criticism of the Central government\u2019s delay in acting, questioning the role of the RSS and alleged Delhi police inaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This makes it evident that this action has been taken by the government in an authoritarian effort to suppress news which is not to the liking of the ruling party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The attempts to suppress the media is part of the overall effort to cover-up the culpability of the Central government in tackling the communal violence in Delhi and to protect leaders of the ruling party who instigated violence.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Date: Saturday, March 7, 2020 The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement: Condemn<\/p>","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-banner","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpimwb.glohtesting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpimwb.glohtesting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpimwb.glohtesting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpimwb.glohtesting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpimwb.glohtesting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cpimwb.glohtesting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4451,"href":"https:\/\/cpimwb.glohtesting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions\/4451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpimwb.glohtesting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpimwb.glohtesting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpimwb.glohtesting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpimwb.glohtesting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}