UKHRUL, JULY 13: The Ukhrul District Working Journalists Association (UDWJA) joins the chorus of condemnation against the alleged assault on State journalists and disrupting their duties by protestors and police personnel during the ongoing ILPS movement in several parts of the State.
A statement of the association said at a time when the State is fighting for implementation of the ILP system for the long deprived indigens people, hampering duties of journalists covering the movement by resorting to physical attack against them would only lead to starvation news for the public.
It said the way some ILPS protestors put journalists through unwarranted ordeals in their duties in various parts of the State amounts to disrespecting the whole press fraternity.
It said as for the police, their highhandedness is all too well known.
It is quite unbecoming of the guardians of peace to breach the rights of journalists stipulated by the Indian Constitution, by subjecting them to unreasonable questioning despite journalists identified themselves with press ID cards, it continued.
The statement said while vehemently condemning the incidents, UDWJA fervently hopes that the government take examplary actions those guilty police personnel and the protestors mend their ways so that such incidents to not repeat in future.