ADVOCATES LETTER TO NBA PRESIDENT FOR IMMEDIATE GUIDELINES TO MEDIA REPORTING ON LOVE-JIHAD ISSUE

ADVOCATES LETTER TO NBA PRESIDENT FOR IMMEDIATE GUIDELINES TO MEDIA REPORTING ON LOVE-JIHAD ISSUE

21st November, 2020

Congress ideologue, Tehseen Poonawala has written a letter to Rajat Sharma, President of the News Broadcasting Association (NBA), requesting immediate guidelines to all news channels on their coverage of the ‘love jihad’ issue.

Further pointing out that the Supreme Court had recently pulled up channels for their blatant communal coverage of Tablighi Jamaat during Covid 19 and UPSC Jihad story on the Sudarshan news channel, Poonawala has urged the NBA President to immediately take up the issue with the NBA to “prevent a catastrophe.”

The Advocate contended in his letter that news channels are blindly carrying out debates on this subject where panelists are lying on national television with regards to the laws and making up fake statistics only to vitiate the environment. For example, on one debate a panelist said there are millions of love jihad cases in India, but he could not point out ten cases