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The nation-wide furore over the beating and arrest of a professor for posting a not very flattering cartoon of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has acquired sinister proportions as there are questions being raised as to whether the govt there is policing social networking sites to target people who are anti-Trinamool.
However,Trinamool Congress today ruled out setting up a mechanism to monitor social media.
“Let me categorically state that the Trinmool Congress never had nor does it intend to have any cell to monitor social media,” Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien said.
On reports that the party has established cells to monitor social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter,the party’s cyber team head said,”these rumours are being spread by those with other agendas. The freedom of the press is non-negotiable”.
The party has come in for severe criticism from the opposition and a section of academia for attacking freedom of speech and expression by arresting professor of Jadavpore University Ambikesh Mohapatra last week.
The cartoons lampooned Mamata Banerjee after she forced out Dinesh Trivedi and put Mukul Roy in his place as Railway minister.
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