Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Barkha Dutt! Mouthpiece of Seperatists?

Today I was watching 9:00 PM news on NDTV 24x7. Barkha was interacting with two guests via video conferencing namely Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Dr. Jitender Rana. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was continuously saying, we have economic blockade, we are short of medicines, we are short of essential commodities and lots more (I guess Mirwaiz Umar Farooq doesn't have television set at his house, thats why he didn't see the aerial shots of the Jammu - Srinagar highway. I am not talking about the aerial shots from NDTV, it was from some other channels. It could clearly be seen that there is no economic blockade. Army had already given statement that there is no economic blockade). When Dr. Jitender Rana said he wanted to give all the answers to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's questions then to my utter surprise, Barkha didn't listened to Dr. Rana at all. The technician out there at NDTV 24x7 simply faded the mic of Dr. Rana. What the hell? What kind of discussion is this? The Amarnath Sagharsh Samiti should see to this that they don't send their representatives to all these channels who are mouth piece of seperatists.

Moreover Shivraj Patil announced the Rs.1000 cr. package for the fruit traders in kashmir. Man, what the center is doing? Don't they know, the fruit growers take the advance money from all their dealers from India in one season in advance. What about Jammu? Doesn't business community of Jammu suffered losses? Who is responsible for this? Obviously the govt. itself. It was this govt. which revoked the land transfer order under the pressure of seperatists.

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