Journalist bodies condemn privilege motion against 2 scribes

Mumbai Press Club, TV Journalists Association (TVJA) and Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh today condemned the move by both houses of Maharashtra Legislature admitting privilege motions against two senior journalists.
The privilege motion against the two scribes -- Nikhil Wagle, chief editor of IBN Lokmat, and Raju Khandekar, Chief Editor of ABP Majha -- pertains to the coverage by these two Marathi channels of the recent assault on a police officer in the premises of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly by half a dozen legislators led by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena MLA Ram Kadam.
The Mumbai Press Club, TV Journalists Association and Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh said in a statement here that the two senior journalists were merely doing their duty in reporting the action by a group of MLAs of assaulting a police officer in the Assembly premises for having given a traffic ticket to an MLA Kshitij Thakur.