Kerala: Tussle between ruling CPM and Asianet News defined

By Express News Service

KOZHIKODE: The tussle between the ruling CPM and the Asianet News, one of many main information channels in Kerala, has worsened with the police conducting a search on the channel workplace right here on Sunday.

The raid, led by Crime Branch Assistant Commissioner V Suresh lasted round 4 hours. The channel sources mentioned that nothing was recovered within the search. 

Police had registered a case towards the channel on a criticism filed by CPM MLA P V Anvar, who alleged that the channel had resorted to some malpractices in a programme aired not too long ago.

The programme titled ‘Narcotics is a dirty business’ was a part of the sequence on the rising drug abuse within the state and the victims who fell prey to the designs of the drug mafia. Anwar had additionally raised the difficulty within the Assembly.

The allegation was that the reporter of the channel used the voice of a sufferer who appeared in one other programme telecast by the identical channel for the brand new sequence. It was additionally alleged that one other lady’s visible was utilized by the channel to current as that of a brand new sufferer and added the voice of the outdated sufferer. There was a hue and cry from varied corners that it was not correct for the channel to resort to such practices.

The problem turned difficult with the channel arising with a proof from the daddy of the sufferer to show that the information was right and the channel had performed nothing unsuitable. But it was once more alleged that there was a criticism towards the daddy himself that he had molested the lady.

CPM has been complaining that Asianet News has an agenda to destabilise the LDF authorities on the behest of the ruling social gathering on the Centre. The channel has aired many tales that have been embarrassing for the federal government and the CPM. The indisputable fact that Rajiv Chandrasekhar, a minister within the Narendra Modi Cabinet, owns the channel was cited to be the explanation for the channel’s antagonism in direction of the CPM.

The social gathering suspected that the channel was attempting to vindicate the cost of the Kerala Governor Arif Muhammad Khan, who had charged that Kerala has changed Punjab the ‘capital of drugs.’ The activists of the SFI barged into the workplace of the Asianet News in Eranakulam on Thursday to register their protest towards the ‘fake news.’

At the identical time, Asianet News Network govt chairman Rajiv Kalra mentioned police raided the channel workplace “in a fabricated case.”

“This follows SFI’s disruptive activity at our Kochi office yesterday. Attempt to browbeat us would fail. We are taking legal action and stand with our team as it exposes every wrongdoing across the spectrum,” he Tweeted.

Meanwhile, the Opposition events in Kerala have condemned the motion towards the channel and mentioned it quantities to intimidating the media. Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala mentioned the motion towards Asianet News is much like the one initiated towards the BBC.

“Pinarayi Vijayan is acting like Modi, who took action against BBC for bringing out a documentary on the him,” Chennithala mentioned. The Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) has additionally protested the police motion towards the Asianet News.

KOZHIKODE: The tussle between the ruling CPM and the Asianet News, one of many main information channels in Kerala, has worsened with the police conducting a search on the channel workplace right here on Sunday.

The raid, led by Crime Branch Assistant Commissioner V Suresh lasted round 4 hours. The channel sources mentioned that nothing was recovered within the search. 

Police had registered a case towards the channel on a criticism filed by CPM MLA P V Anvar, who alleged that the channel had resorted to some malpractices in a programme aired not too long ago.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The programme titled ‘Narcotics is a dirty business’ was a part of the sequence on the rising drug abuse within the state and the victims who fell prey to the designs of the drug mafia. Anwar had additionally raised the difficulty within the Assembly.

The allegation was that the reporter of the channel used the voice of a sufferer who appeared in one other programme telecast by the identical channel for the brand new sequence. It was additionally alleged that one other lady’s visible was utilized by the channel to current as that of a brand new sufferer and added the voice of the outdated sufferer. There was a hue and cry from varied corners that it was not correct for the channel to resort to such practices.

The problem turned difficult with the channel arising with a proof from the daddy of the sufferer to show that the information was right and the channel had performed nothing unsuitable. But it was once more alleged that there was a criticism towards the daddy himself that he had molested the lady.

CPM has been complaining that Asianet News has an agenda to destabilise the LDF authorities on the behest of the ruling social gathering on the Centre. The channel has aired many tales that have been embarrassing for the federal government and the CPM. The indisputable fact that Rajiv Chandrasekhar, a minister within the Narendra Modi Cabinet, owns the channel was cited to be the explanation for the channel’s antagonism in direction of the CPM.

The social gathering suspected that the channel was attempting to vindicate the cost of the Kerala Governor Arif Muhammad Khan, who had charged that Kerala has changed Punjab the ‘capital of drugs.’ The activists of the SFI barged into the workplace of the Asianet News in Eranakulam on Thursday to register their protest towards the ‘fake news.’

At the identical time, Asianet News Network govt chairman Rajiv Kalra mentioned police raided the channel workplace “in a fabricated case.”

“This follows SFI’s disruptive activity at our Kochi office yesterday. Attempt to browbeat us would fail. We are taking legal action and stand with our team as it exposes every wrongdoing across the spectrum,” he Tweeted.

Meanwhile, the Opposition events in Kerala have condemned the motion towards the channel and mentioned it quantities to intimidating the media. Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala mentioned the motion towards Asianet News is much like the one initiated towards the BBC.

“Pinarayi Vijayan is acting like Modi, who took action against BBC for bringing out a documentary on the him,” Chennithala mentioned. The Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) has additionally protested the police motion towards the Asianet News.