Burning newspapers in Imphal

IN Media Watch Briefs | 21/11/2017

Thenortheasttoday.com reports that Imphal-based newspapers left their editorial columns blank to protest the burning down of a daily on Nov. 18, allegedly by members of the BJP’s youth wing. "Copies of the vernacular newspaper Poknapham were set on fire by unidentified miscreants in front of BJP’s party office at Nityapat Chuthek on Saturday over alleged disparaging content against the prime minister", the website said. The All Manipur Working Journalists Union has termed the act of burning the newspaper copies as "promulgation of mob culture."

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