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Kathmandu,Tuesday January 18, 2000 Magh 4th, 2056.
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Private media barred from reporting
-By a Post
Reporter
BIRATNAGAR, Jan
17 - Reporters who were on reporting assignment at a programme held here Monday were
barred from carrying out their duties by the order of Home Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka
who is also in-charge of the Communications Ministry.
Reporters of
government media were allowed to attend the programme while private media reporters were
barred from entering the venue of the regional gathering of Chief District Officers,
police chiefs and chiefs of National Investigation Department from all the 16
districts of the eastern region.
As they learned
that they were barred from entering the venue by the order of the Home Minister, private
media reporters waited at the main entrance and tried to meet him, but police
disgracefully drove them out telling them to immediately leave the office compound.
A senior police
officer who came out of the programme said the meeting was purely a Home Administration
affair and private media would not be allowed to disseminate the information.
Private media
journalists are planning to hand over a memorandum to Home Minister Khadka tomorrow
protesting the incident.
During the premiership of Sher Bahadur
Deuba, journalists were not allowed to report the news of such a programme by the then
Home Minister Khum Bahadur Khadka. When the barred journalists met him later and voiced
their protest, he had assured them that they would be allowed to report such news in the
future.
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