Thiruvananthapuram: Expressing concern over the police action against certain media houses in Kerala, former Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadeker said on Wednesday that freedom of the press was under attack in the state and accused the Left government of “terrorising the media” for exposing its alleged wrongdoings.
Referring to the cases registered against a woman reporter of a promient Malayalam news channel in Kochi a few weeks ago and the recent police action against a Thiruvananthapuram-based online news channel and its employees, the senior BJP leader alleged that those were the “first kind of terrorism against the media” in the southern state.
He said the actions of the Left government against the media and media personnel clearly showed its ‘political vendetta’ against those who expose the alleged wrongdoings of the Pinarayi Vijayan-led dispensation.
