NEW DELHI: The glasnost in Doordarshan which began telecasting the parliamentary proceedings since the last session took a beating as a heavily edited version of the Rajya Sabhas Tuesday proceedings was telecast on Wednesday.

Though quite a bit of the hangama which took place on “Tuesday during the question hour came out on the air the crucial portions of confusion among the Congress ranks had been censored for the nation-wide audience.

The TV audience was not shown the Congress members standing up and supporting the BJP against the resolution to suspend the question Nor the “gheraoing” of the leader of the House S.B. Chavan by the Congress members. Doordarshan quickly moved on to the third vote during which the Congress members abstained.

Article extracted from this publication >> April 17, 1992