A video, which has now gone viral, shows a local reporter Sanjay Rana, seeking responses from state minister Gulab Devi on several promises of development she had made ahead of the assembly elections
In another incident of curbing press freedom, a local journalist was arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district after he questioned state minister for secondary education Gulab Devi at a public event on March 11. Devi had visited Budh Nagar Khandwa to inaugurate a dam. The journalist is out on bail, as per media reports.
A video, which has now gone viral, shows a local reporter Sanjay Rana, seeking responses from Devi on several promises of development she had made ahead of the state assembly elections. An FIR was filed against him by Shubham Raghav, a leader from the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, after the incident. Rana is associated with a YouTube channel called Moradabad Ujala.
Speaking in Hindi, Rana is seen asking in the video: “You had said that you are adopting Budh Nagar Khandwa which comes under your constituency, Chandausi and that this village belongs to you. You had taken the oath in a temple. Addressing the elders of the village, you had asked them to let you know whatever work has to be done and you would get them done. Lastly, you had also said that if you win the election, you will return here (Budh Nagar) once again but you never came.”
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