New Delhi/Srinagar: Various journalist bodies, press associations from across the country and the Opposition party Congress on Monday strongly condemned the FIR filed against The Tribune reporter Rachna Khaira, for filing a story on the Aadhaar data breach.
The Congress charged the NDA government at the Centre of creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation and stifling democratic dissent in a systematic manner in the country over the last three and a half years and demanded that FIR must be immediately withdrawn by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
AICC spokesperson Manish Tewari said,’in the last three and a half years, an atmosphere of terror, intimidation and coercion and stifling democratic dissent is being systematically created and perpetuated by the NDA Government. This is nothing but fascist and attempts to muzzle democracy.The FIR must be immediately withdrawn by the UIDAI.’