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Journalism of Courage
The Congress on Tuesday complained against an advertisement allegedly released by the Kamakshi Education Society that was being aired on some news channels. Marking Bhagat Singh’s martyrdom, the advertisement says that Bhagat Singh threw out the videshi’s right to realise self-rule. The advertisement then depicts the atrocities committed by ‘‘foreigners.’’ And then, without taking Sonia Gandhi’s name, talks about how some people in India are trying to install a videshi in power. In a letter to the Commission, Congress general secretary Oscar Fernandes said, ‘‘The advertisement not only seeks to incite violence but otherwise offends against good taste and decency. It also contains words which are of a slanderous nature and seeks to malign Sonia Gandhi by suggestion.’’
