The Editors Guild today strongly condemned the attack on senior journalist and its former President Rajdeep Sardesai by a group claiming to be supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York yesterday.
Sardesai, who according to eyewitness accounts, kept trying to pacify a crowd of around 50 people was "abused in the vilest language", and manhandled at the Madison Square Garden in New York.
"This mob mentality to silence those with divergent views is not acceptable," the Guild said and urged the Prime Minister and the government to condemn the incident, and ensure that action is taken against the guilty.
