Saffron detox over, I&B gets Cong leader’s wife on censor tribunal

Vadakkan confirmed his wife had been informally approached by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to join the tribunal and she has accepted it. ‘‘She has not signed on anything yet,’’ Vadakkan said. Alka Vadakkan is one of the three invited to be on the tribunal, which was earlier represented by RSS ideologue Hedgewar’s biographer and Delhi University lecturer Rakesh Sinha, Nitin Desai and Shyam Kishore Sharma, (all handpicked by former Information and Broadcasting Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad) under the chairmanship of Firoza Bano.

The other two invitees are chartered accountant from Hyderabad I Narasimha Rao and The Indian Express Senior Editor Sagarika Ghose. While Ghose has declined the invitation, Vadakkan and Rao have accepted it. For the purpose of hearing appeals against any order of the Censor Board, the Government usually constitutes an Apellate Tribunal which consists of a chairperson and not more than four other members.