CPI(M) accuses Modi govt of censorship over Tripura CM speech broadcast row

Prasar Bharti denies it censored Tripura CM's I-Day speech

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Wednesday accused the Narendra Modi government at the Centre of imposing the worst kind of censorship. It said the Agartala centres of Doordarshan and All India Radio (AIR) blacked out Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar's Independence Day address to the people of the state.

The CPI (M) also furnished an internal letter of AIR as evidence that the state broadcasters were unwilling to broadcast the speech unless the "CM agrees to reshape the content (of his speech) making it suitable to the solemnity of the occasion and sentiments of the people