A group of journalists will hold a protest march on Thursday from the Press Club in Delhi to the Parliament building to protest restrictio...
A group of journalists will hold a protest march on Thursday from the Press Club in Delhi to the Parliament building to protest restrictions on access to Parliament during the Winter Session, The Telegraph reported.
The Centre had restricted the entry of mediapersons in Parliament early in 2020 since the outbreak of Covid-19. Journalists cannot access media galleries in the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and the Central Hall.
For two days in a week, reporters are permitted to be on the Parliament premises, but they have no access to the proceedings.
On November 27, a group of journalists wrote an open letter to the leaders of all political parties in Parliament, protesting the restrictions on the media’s access to Parliament. The letter said that there was no need for such curbs now, adding that public places such as malls, restaurants and cinema halls had been reopened.
The letter said that the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, in a press conference in July, had stated that no restrictions would be imposed on the media’s entry.
“We are concerned that there is a depressing trend emerging to isolate Parliament and parliamentarians from media gaze,” the letter said, adding that trend augurs ill of parliamentary democracy.
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