BHUBANESWAR: Expressing unhappy over
the reply of Information and Public Relation Minister Arun Kumar Sahu in the
Assembly regarding their seven-point charter of demands, working journalists
staged dharna in front of the Gopabandhu statue in the premises of the State
Assembly here on Monday.
The agitating journalists said
that there was no new thing in Sahu’s statement. He was repeating the old
things while discussing with the journalists. “After several discussions and
assurances from the State Government, the same old thing happened,” said a
scribe, adding, “No particular announcements have been made by the Minister
keeping in view of the scribes’ demands.”
Cutting across party line,
members in the Assembly on December 11 had expressed concern over the plight of
the working journalists and had demanded that the Government should fulfill
their demands immediately.
The issue came in for a marathon
discussion for about one and a half hours during Zero hour in the House which had
witnessed noisy scenes. All the leaders had demanded that the scribes should be
provided minimum facilities.
“But nothing happened what the
journalists had expected. We got cheated again by the State Government,” said another
scribe.
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