CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief minister Beant Singh recently hurled invectives at the media which, he said, was interfering with the process of “restoring peace in the stats.”
Int he course of an interview with an Indian journal, the chief minister flared up incredibly to call for “elimination of the media from
When his attention was drawn to complaints of electoral irregularities by the ruling party in the course of by-election to Lok Sabha from Jalandhar constituency, the chief minister said: “we are being derailed by the Press.” When the interviewer looked around, the chief minister said that he was free to report his observations.
The chief minister made scathing attack on the Press and abused it with choicest Punjabi invectives. The substance of his observations was that the media (other than the government contorted electronics media) had destroyed Punjab and the country as a whole. He did not explain the statement.
The chief minister’s choice of the language for his criticism has evidently embarrassed officers handling the public relations of his government. They are not willing to comment on the incident Jest they should further annoy of the chief minister.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 18, 1993
