UP journalists fight to survive.
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 | Between FIR And Arrest, UP’s Journalists Fight To Survive | A, a Hindi journalist in Uttar Pradesh, knew that a report he had filed on how migrant workers had fled a quarantine facility in Uttar Pradesh could trigger an FIR or get him arrested in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. He did it anyway.
Yet, instead of a visit from the local constabulary — as is common in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s regime — A received a phone call from the concerned district magistrate who was dreading a shouting from the Chief Minister Yogi.
The DM, A said, half scolded and half pleaded with him against reporting these failures, citing the tremendous pressure, the enormity of the challenge, and the lack of time and resources that officers were contending with.
A, who like many journalists in UP risks arrest for doing his job, has come to believe that after three years of the “FIR culture” in the state, bureaucrats and police officers serving in the districts have become some of the main proponents of silencing the media by fear or favour in order to protect themselves. | |
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