New Delhi: Leaving apart the “darkish chapter” of the Emergency, within the historical past of India’s democracy, there can “by no means be seen any restriction” on the liberty of the press, Union minister Rajnath Singh mentioned on Thursday.
At an occasion right here, the defence minister additionally mentioned on points on which there’s a “social consensus”, the federal government’s views might be mirrored within the media and within the opinions of writers and thinkers, however that doesn’t imply they’re “puppets of the federal government”.
The media is named the fourth pillar of democracy, Singh mentioned in his deal with on the NDTV Defence Summit right here, including that it “works as a hyperlink” between the federal government and other people, and so they each join to one another
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