After Censor board chief Leela Samson quit from her post citing corruption in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, another Censor Board member Ira Bhaskar has also decided to quit.
Bhaskar said, "My letter will go in the evening. I've decided to resign. Our members had discussed on this issue and we decided to support our Chairperson Leela Samson. Now she had resigned and we even have not met as a board. No board meeting for last one year."
In a statement on her resignation, Samson mentioned "interference, coercion and corruption of panel members and officers of the organisation appointed by the Ministry" as reasons for her resignation. She said that she has had to manage an organisation whose Board has not met for over nine months as the Ministry had 'no funds' to permit the meeting of members.
MSG row takes its toll, Censor Board member Ira Bhaskar resigns in support of chief Leela Samson
We decided to support our Chairperson Leela Samson, said Ira Bhaskar.