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Pawar
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Friday February 11, 2011 07:18:42 PM,
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Kolhapur (Maharashtra): Nearly a week after Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar
suggested a gag on the media, his uncle and union Agriculture
Minister Sharad Pawar Friday expressed "regrets" over the remarks.
"Any leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) does such a
thing, the party will not endorse it. It is not the party's
policy," Pawar told reporters during his two-day trip to western
Maharashtra.
He suggested the formation of a committee comprising senior mediapersons like Kumar Ketkar and Arun Sadhu to examine the
entire episode.
"If any wrong has been done, then we shall apologise," Sharad
Pawar said.
The media in Mumbai responded shortly thereafter by agreeing to
bury the hatchet vis-à-vis the Pawars and lifted the state-wide
ban on covering the events of both Chief Minister Prithviraj
Chavan and his deputy Ajit Pawar.
The Patrakar Halla Virodhi Kruti Samiti boycotted Chavan's weekly
media briefing Thursday.
"We are ending the ban after Sharad Pawar's regrets. However, we
shall still hold the state-wide agitation Feb 15 (Tuesday),
seeking enactment of suitable laws to protect mediapersons from
all types of attacks," an office-bearer for the Samiti said.
The media ban on Ajit Pawar became an embarrassment for the NCP,
especially since it was followed by Sharad Pawar's own outburst
against the media Thursday in Satara.
"When the onion prices shot up, I was blamed. Now, when the onion
rates have plummetted, I am being held responsible. I must be
careful now with the media," Sharad Pawar said.
Pune mediapersons boycotted the function attended by Ajit Pawar
and held in honour of Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, who
passed away in Pune last month.
Assembled journalists, sporting black ribbons, downed their pens
while the electronic media switched off their television cameras
when Ajit Pawar came on the dais to speak.
Last week, at a function in Nanded, Ajit Pawar attacked the media
and alleged it was reporting untruths and half-truths. He
suggested a gag on those indulging in such journalism and caning
of such scribes.
A media delegation has met Governor K. Sankaranarayanan,
protesting Ajit Pawar's remarks and demanding enactment of laws to
prevent attacks on the media.
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