New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has termed the arrest of Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami as an attack on the freedom of the press, saying that it reminded him of the Emergency.
After the arrest of Arnab by the police in Mumbai today, various ministers of the Central Government and leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party tweet and condemn it. Home Minister Amit Shah also tweeted, “The Congress and its allies have once again shamed democracy. The misuse of state power against Republic TV and Arnab Goswami is an attack on the fourth pillar of personal freedom and democracy. It reminds us of the Emergency. The attack on the independent press should be opposed and will be done. “
Arnab Goswami was arrested by the police from his house in Mumbai this morning. According to reports, the journalist has been arrested for abetment in an old case of suicide.
Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday strongly condemned Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami being taken into police custody and said that it reminded us of the Emergency.
Law Minister and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday termed the arrest of Arnab Goswami, the editor-in-chief of Republic TV, as ‘gravely condemnable, unfair and worrying’. Prasad said that the Maharashtra government is ‘openly suppressing the freedom of the press’ and even then the Congress leadership is silent.
