AMWJU, EGM decry DC's stand

By Our Staff Reporter

IMPHAL, May 3: The All Manipur Working Journalists' Union (AMWJU) and the Editors' Guild, Manipur (EGM) have strongly condemned the biasness and arrogant attitude of DC of Kamjong, Kengu Juringla, towards media persons.

A joint statement issued by AMWJU and EGM alleged that the DC banned a team of media persons comprising of ISTV News, Impact TV News, News 18, etc, from covering the search operation for the remaining two dead bodies in Chadong water at Mapithel Dam today.

However, a particular media house's team was allowed to cover the search operation along with the official search teams by taking a boat in the water.

Furthermore, the DC wrongly blamed the media for uploading video clips of the recovery of the first dead body yesterday on social media, making them go viral, it added, clarifying that in fact, it is not the media but those in the search teams who uploaded the video clips on social media.

The two associations also conveyed that what's more shocking is that the DC did not even allow coverage of the search by a drone camera from air.

Such biased and high-handed attitude of the DC, especially on World Press Freedom Day, deserves condemnation in the strongest term by all sections of media and society, it explained, appealing to the State Government to look into the matter and take appropriate action at the earliest.