NBA slams attack on journalists during unruly farmer rally in Delhi on R-Day

The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has strongly condemned the attack on media persons and breaking of their equipment during the coverage of the unruly tractor rally taken out on January 26, 2021 by farmers in Delhi in protest against the new farm laws.

NBA is of the opinion that both the print and electronic media have been covering the farmers’ protests on the outskirts of Delhi in a fair, balanced and objective manner over the last two months.

In a statement issued, NBA said, “The media persons who were covering the tractor rally were performing their professional duty of collecting information and disseminating them to the public at large, and any use of force and violence against them tantamount to throttling the voice of democracy and the freedom of media.”

NBA demanded that persons or hooligans responsible for the attack on the journalists and camerapersons must be identified and booked under law, “because these elements were obstructing media persons from performing their professional duties and were trampling upon their rights as enshrined in the Constitution”.