Indian Journalist Association Maharajganj unit handed over a memorandum to SDM in protest against the brutal murder of Sitapur journalist

Media workers unanimously demanded Uttar Pradesh government to make Journalist Protection Act.

Maharajganj, Uttar Pradesh.

In protest against the brutal murder of Dainik Jagran journalist Raghavendra Vajpayee in Sitapur, journalists under the leadership of District Spokesperson of Indian Journalist Association Maharajganj District Unit, Karunakar Ram Tripathi, raised slogans of hang the journalist's killers and implement Journalist Protection Act and handed over a memorandum addressed to the Honorable Chief Minister to Sub-District Officer Nand Prakash Maurya. The journalists present unanimously demanded the government to make Journalist Protection Act. Media workers were very angry about this brutal murder and strongly condemned this incident.

District Spokesperson of Indian Journalist Association Karunakar Ram Tripathi said that journalists are constantly being harassed and murdered in Uttar Pradesh. All media persons are angry with the brutal murder of Dainik Jagran journalist Raghavendra Vajpayee in Sitapur and Ashutosh Srivastava in Jaunpur and the incident of stripping and harassing two journalists by the Municipal Council President in Mahoba. All media persons have unanimously demanded from the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh that just as the governments of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have made and implemented the Journalist Protection Act in the interest of journalists, the Uttar Pradesh government should also make and implement the Journalist Protection Act. Meanwhile, District Spokesperson Karunakar Ram Tripathi said that the government should provide compensation of Rs. 1 crore to the family of the deceased journalist, a government job to one of the family members and education for their children. The license form should be issued to insecure journalists for self-protection on the basis of priority without NSC within 15 days of the application for arms license and journalists are being harassed by corrupt officials and leaders dissatisfied with not writing news in their favour and getting fake cases registered against them in the police station. To stop the harassment of such journalists, a committee of District Magistrate, Superintendent of Police, Information Officer and District President of Indian Journalist Association should be constituted in each district and after conducting an impartial inquiry of the complaints lodged against the journalists, action should be taken only if found guilty. The journalists of towns, blocks and cities should be given a group accident insurance of Rs. 5 lakhs by the government. The installment of which should be paid by the government and warned that if the state government does not accept our demands, then the Indian Journalist Association will be forced to come out on the streets and protest in the entire state. 

Other media persons also expressed their anger on this heinous murder by giving their statements. 

Indian Journalist Association's District Spokesperson Karunakar Ram Tripathi, District General Secretary Navneet Tripathi, Tehsil Media Incharge Amit Kumar Mishra, Tehsil Vice President Mahesh Vishwakarma, Tehsil Media Incharge Ram Ashish Vishwakarma, Tehsil Secretary Biju Mohan K, Aslam Siddiqui, Dr. Javed Jafri and other media persons were involved in this anger march and giving memorandum.