CITU flayed for blocking newspapers
November 3rd, 2011 - 10:23 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) Thursday condemned the CITU for obstructing the distribution of Malayala Manorama and Mathurubhumi newspapers in Calicut and Kannur in Kerala.
INS said the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, which is allied to the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), was “physically obstructing the distribution of Malayala Manorama and its other publications in Calicut city and neighbouring areas for the last 13 days.
“Now they have started blocking the bundles of Mathrubhumi Daily also,” it said. “The disruption of supply of these two newspapers has spread to neighbouring Kannur district as well.”
Calling it an attack on the freedom of the press, INS president Ashish Bagga urged the CPI-M to “desist from denying the right to the people to get newspaper of their choice”.
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