"Doordarshan is part of the government machinery and it cannot be used for promoting any party's ideology. Doordarshan has a legacy of being neutral and now they have lost that," Mohammad Yusuf of Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamat told reporters.
The protesters held placards and also raised slogans against BJP and Doordarshan for telecasting the speech live.
A controversy broke out over the live telecast by the national broadcaster of the RSS chief's address at Nagpur on October 3, with Congress and Left parties slamming the "misuse" of Doordarshan.
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