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NEW DELHI: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today attacked Modi government for one day ban on NDTV india, saying democracy is going through “one of its darkest hours” with the ruling dispensation “obsessed with power and seeking to silence” all those who disagree.
Presiding over the meeting of the Congress Working Committee in the absence of party chief Sonia Gandhi, the party Vice President charged that, “hiding behind the cloak of national security, civil society is being intimidated for asking questions.”
Alluding to the one-day ban on Hindi channel NDTV India, Mr Gandhi charged, “TV channels are being punished and asked to shut down. The opposition is being arrested for holding the government to account”.
“Democracy under the present dispensation is going through one of the darkest hours,” he said, adding that all attempts by the government to suppress fundamental freedom by “abusing” state power would only strengthen the Congress resolve to defeat such “danger designs”.
“Asking questions is what discomforts this government the most, for they have no answers. We must in every forum, in particular the upcoming session of Parliament, expose the government’s failures,” he said.