Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is controlling a large chunk of media, while reacting to a tweet that said no mainstream media has covered Rana Ayyub’s book “Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up”.
“What does that tell us? “It tells us that Modi controls a large chunk of media, especially the owners,” Kejriwal wrote on Twitter.
Journalist Rana Ayyub met bureaucrats and top officials in Gujarat who held key positions in the state between 2001 and 2010 and brings to light the involvement of the state and its officials during the Gujarat riots in her recent book, “Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up”.
The book investigates the alleged fake encounters that happened under Modi’s watch as then chief minister of Gujarat between 2001 and 2010. Meanwhile, on Friday, his party members also slammed the Modi government.
Attacking the Centre over non-disbursement of Nirbhaya Fund, AAP accused the Narendra Modi government of reducing the serious issue of women’s security into a “joke”.
Flanked by AAP’s women legislators — Alka Lamba, Rakhi Birla and Sarita Singh — the party’s Delhi unit convenor Dilip Pandey said that the Centre is yet to have a policy on women’s security or a national law for compensation in case of crime against women. After the rape of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi in December 2012, the Centre had created Nirbhaya Fund which could be used for the security of women.