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Legislative Assembly Debates Friday 2nd December 1932

1932

If the intention of the Goverment as regards the Press laws is to be adequately expressed then instead of calling it for the better control of the Press I think it should be called for the suppression of the Indian Press. [...] This is the limit of the vagaries of the Press and the way in which they publish defamatory matter and the wax in which they create hatred among the different sections of the public in this country. [...] One of them is reported to have sought an interview even with His Excellency the Viceroy to press his No wonder that the Government consider themselves safe on the Ottawa and the Ordinance Bilis.- 1 strongly repudiate on the floor of the House the insinuations which have been made against the Honourable Members of this House in this note and 1 submit that it is not enough that the Press should b [...] It in an educated country the most educated country in the world where the Press is supposed to be restrained questions involving the destiny of the Empire and personalities associated with the making of that destiny could be misrepresented in the mariner in which the Daily Mail represented them and if freedom could nevertheless be enjoyed by the Press in that country then I do not see why t [...] B. V. Jarlhav: The (taint has been made here that the Press is the ventilator the T the public and the gagging of the Press is ultimately to the loss of the Government themselves.
government politics public policy
Pages
50
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
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Legislative Assembly Debates Friday 2nd December 1932
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