Cong targets Modi over press freedom

“Editors of a newspaper in Bhavnagar and Rajkot were arrested and charged with sedition in 2004 after it published articles exposing scandals in the local police. Another editor was arrested on sedition charges the same year for writing an article alleging that the state government was aware that a local company was involved in arms smuggling.

A senior reporter of a national Hindi news channel was charged with sedition charges in 2003 after his report alleged that the government neglected the rehabilitation of an orphan, who has lost his parents in the criminal violence in 2002.  Modi called for a ban on a channel in 2002, which was highlighting police and state complicity in the communal violence in Gujarat,” Sibal said.

Maintaining that hard facts tell a different story from what Modi says or tweets on various issues, Sibal alleged, “the art of fooling people has been perfected by him. We worry about the future of India when a man with dubious intentions seek to occupy the office of the Prime Minister of India.”