Opinion July 4, 1976, Forty Years Ago: Shukla On Media
It would then be difficult for any kind of vested interests to influence or control the press, he said in a speech delivered in New Delhi to launch young journalists association.
A look at the front page of The Indian Express, published on July 4, 1976, Forty Years Ago.
I&B minister, V.C. Shukla, said press reforms being initiated would ensure that the press in India becomes “truly free in the coming years”. It would then be difficult for any kind of vested interests to influence or control the press, he said in a speech delivered in New Delhi to launch young journalists association. He explained that the temporary restrictions on the press had become necessary because certain interests and some proprietors of the press would not allow newspapers to function freely. Freedom of the press, he said, did not mean merely freedom from government control. It meant complete freedom from control of proprietors or other vested interests. Hailing the gains achieved during one year of the Emergency.
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