Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 11 2008:
All Manipur Working Journalists' Union (AMWJU) has decried and condemned the statement given by Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh to some media persons at the banquet hall of 1st MR today stating that the CM seemed to be condoning the DGP against the latter's act of brow-beating journalists to disclose their news source about the fertilizer scam.
The CM's statement, "I directed the DGP to find out facts behind the report on smuggling fertilizer yesterday morning.
That might be the reason the DGP called the journalists" is irresponsible and unbecoming of a Chief Minister, remarked AMWJU, in a press release.
The decision to boycott programmes of the CM in case the DGP do not tender unconditional apology and is not transferred by October 14 still stands, it added.