We, members of public, civil society, professional bodies and trade unions, express strong disapproval of the tactics being used to push the election process in a certain direction.
We, members of public, civil society, professional bodies and trade unions, express strong disapproval of the tactics being used to push the election process in a certain direction.
hardly mentioned in the mainstream Indian press, a huge rally was finally held on 30th March at the Maidan (Shahid Minar), Calcutta’s most prominent venue for speeches and protests, where up to 100,000 demonstrators (claimed by the organizers) came to voice their rage at “disrespect to Islam in Bangladesh†.
If we look at the totality of public and private censorship, we see that while religion does come up (and provokes global hand-wringing), it is not always the overriding concern. Rather it is challenges to state power, initially class-based critiques in the 1970s, and later critical writing organized around centrist polarities, that provoke the deepest backlash. Journalists who benefit from business opportunities and government linkages complicate matters– as beneficiaries of state or business patronage, they lose editorial independence and are also likely to be targets of recrimination after regime change.
Once a parliamentarian signs this ‘Oath’ he/she cannot propose to get out of the so-called ‘Islamic ideology’ bond by proposing deletion of the controversial articles of the constitution
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