Was It a Deliberate Gag?

Was It a Deliberate Gag?

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August 12, 2022

Was a deliberate gag manufactured to silence Masoom Moradabadi of Urdu newspaper Akhbar-e-Jadid, when he asked the most crucial question engaging the 200 million Indian Muslims as to how Prime Minister will act on the recommendations of Sachar Commission and Justice Ranganath Misra Commission reports?

Masoom was the fifth journalist in the line to be given the chance to address the questions to the Prime Minister. However when he posed the sensitive question about Muslim plight, all of a sudden the DD telecast went dead. Can one imagine a national TV Channel to be so inefficient and callous about breakdown in its telecast of Prime Minister’s Press Conference? One can see the last flashes of Prime Minister’s instant distress while the Muslim journalist reeled out the question on behalf of his Urdu newspaper, when the telecast went off the air. Was the breakdown of the telecast was designed specially to shield the Prime Minister from replying to embarrassing questions about the abject failure of his government?

Ghulam Muhammed

Mumbai, M.S.