{"id":129801,"date":"2020-06-28T02:26:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=129801"},"modified":"2020-06-28T02:26:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:56:36","slug":"iju-nec-meet-expresses-concern-at-repressive-approach-of-up-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/28\/iju-nec-meet-expresses-concern-at-repressive-approach-of-up-government\/","title":{"rendered":"IJU NEC meet expresses concern at repressive approach of UP government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IJU-NEC-meet-expresses-concern-at-repressive-approach-of-UP-government.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129817 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IJU-NEC-meet-expresses-concern-at-repressive-approach-of-UP-government.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IJU-NEC-meet-expresses-concern-at-repressive-approach-of-UP-government.jpg 472w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IJU-NEC-meet-expresses-concern-at-repressive-approach-of-UP-government-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Jun 27:<\/strong> The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) on Saturday held its national executive council (NEC) meeting online, in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was attended by representatives of journalists&#8217; unions of 13 states.<br \/>\nChairing the virtual meeting, IJU president Geetartha Pathak expressed concern over the repressive approach being adopted by the Uttar Pradesh government towards journalists who are writing critiques against the government.<br \/>\nPathak sought a report from the UP state journalists&#8217; union on the atrocities being committed against journalists.<br \/>\nAsserting that &#8220;the IJU cannot function or even exist without the active involvement of the state unions,&#8221; the IJU president exhorted the state units to raise their voice against oppressors, &#8220;so that the issues can be pursued by the national team at the national level.&#8221;<br \/>\nIJU secretary-general Sabina Inderjit expressed displeasure over the UP state journalists&#8217; union not taking up the issue even after the Yogi Adityanath government targeted the journalists reporting against his government.<br \/>\n&#8220;The IJU can function effectively only if the federal units are functioning effectively,&#8221; she said, and urged the UP unit to be proactive on the ground.<br \/>\nThe participants also discussed the widespread laying off of journalists across the country by media houses, and resolved to write to the prime minister&#8217;s office to announce financial packages for the media houses in the country which are genuinely affected by the pandemic.<br \/>\nIn many European countries the governments have announced special packages for the media houses, so that the journalists may not lose their jobs.<br \/>\nParticipating in the miscellaneous discussion, IJU NEC member from Arunachal, Taya Bagang proposed conducting a &#8220;state-to-state exposure tour&#8221; when the pandemic situation gets better, in order to offer young journalists an opportunity to learn about the functioning of the union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Jun 27: The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) on Saturday held its national executive council (NEC) meeting online, in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was attended by representatives of journalists&#8217; unions of 13 states. Chairing the virtual meeting, IJU president Geetartha Pathak expressed concern over the repressive approach being adopted by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-129801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}