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New Delhi, March 17 (Scoop News)-The Delhi Union of Journalists expresses its surprise at the sharp attacks on Tribune Editor Jyoti Malhotra and the newspaper by Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira, in response to an article written by her.
The article on Punjab’s politics critiqued both the AAP Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann for his loose remarks on women at a rally in Ludhiana as well as Khaira’s reported remarks on “dancing women”. Khaira has denied the comments and chosen to respond with aggressive tweets, including calling the woman journalist a puppet of the AAP government. The DUJ condemns the MLA’s remarks and their derogatory language.
The DUJ is shocked by Khaira’s tweet stating that the newspaper pages are “conceived, designed and edited” at the Chief Minister’s office in the Punjab Secretariat! He has alleged that Malhotra has a “highly prejudiced and biased mindset” and has threatened to file a criminal defamation suit against her.
The DUJ wishes to point out that Malhotra is a professional journalist with highly credible credentials. She is one of the handful of women journalists to head a daily newspaper. As a woman, she has been sensitive to the misogyny exhibited by several Punjab politicians in their attitudes to women and has rightly chosen to critique it. Clearly Khaira and others like him are too thin skinned to accept criticism on this score.
His broadside against both Malhotra and The Tribune reveal the falling standards of political discourse in the country. The threat of legal action reflects the growing intolerance towards dissent. DUJ demands that Khaira apologise for his remarks and withdraw them. We stand strongly by both The Tribune and its Editor in this unfortunate controversy.
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