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Attacks on the progressive Indian news outlet NewsClick coincided with the suspension of 141 opposition members of Indian parliament, both constituting serious attacks on Indian democracy.<\/p>\n

By Vijay Prashad<\/header>\n
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Several journalist bodies, students’, youth and civil society organisations held protests at Press Club of India and Jantar Mantar on October 4th against recent witch hunt of employees of NewsClick, and the arrest of Prabir Purkayastha and Amit Chakraborty. Photo: CPI(M)<\/p>\n

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On December 18 and 19, 141 members of the two houses of India\u2019s Parliament were\u00a0suspended<\/a>\u00a0by the Speaker of the House, Om Birla. Each of these members belong to the parties that oppose the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leader, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The government\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that these elected members were suspended for \u201cunruly behavior.\u201d The opposition had shaped itself into the INDIA bloc, which included almost every party not affiliated to the BJP. They responded to this action by calling it the \u201cmurder of democracy\u201d and\u00a0alleging<\/a>\u00a0that the BJP government has installed an \u201cextreme level of dictatorship\u201d in India. This act comes after a range of attempts to undermine India\u2019s elected opposition.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on December 18, the Indian news website\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0that the Income Tax (IT) department \u201chas virtually frozen our accounts.\u201d\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>\u00a0can no longer make payments to its employees, which means that this news media portal is now close to being silenced. The editors at\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>\u00a0said that this action by the IT department is \u201ca continuation of the administrative-legal siege\u201d that began with the Enforcement Directorate raids in February 2021, was deepened by the IT department survey in September 2021, and the large-scale raids of October 3, 2023, that resulted in the\u00a0arrest<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>\u2019s founder Prabir Purkayastha and its administrative officer Amit Chakraborty. Both remain in prison.<\/p>\n

Organs of Indian democracy<\/b><\/h3>\n

In February 2022,\u00a0The Economist<\/i>\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthe organs of India\u2019s democracy are decaying.\u201d Two years before that assessment, India\u2019s leading economist and Nobel Prize laureate, Amartya Sen,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cdemocracy is government by discussion, and, if you make discussion fearful, you are not going to get a democracy, no matter how you count the votes. And that is massively true now. People are afraid now. I have never seen this before.\u201d India\u2019s most respected journalist, N. Ram (former editor of\u00a0The Hindu<\/i>), wrote in\u00a0The Prospect<\/i>\u00a0in August 2023 about this \u201cdecaying\u201d of Indian democracy and the fear of discussion in the context of the attack on\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>. This attack, he\u00a0wrote<\/a>, \u201cmarks a new low for press freedom in my country, which has been caught-up in a decade-long trend of uninterrupted down sliding in the \u2018new India\u2019 of Narendra Modi. We have witnessed a state-engineered McCarthyite campaign of disinformation, scaremongering, and vilification against\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>.\u201d The world, he wrote, \u201cshould be watching in horror.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May 2022, ten organizations \u2013 including Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Reporters Without Borders \u2013 released a strong\u00a0statement<\/a>, saying that the Indian authorities \u201cshould stop targeting, prosecuting journalists and online critics.\u201d This statement documented how the Indian government of has used laws against counterterrorism and sedition to silence the media, when it has been critical of government policies. Use of technology \u2013 such as Pegasus \u2013 has allowed the government to spy on reporters and to use their private communications for legal action against them. Journalists have been physically attacked and intimidated (with special focus on Muslim journalists, journalists who cover Jammu and Kashmir, and journalists who covered the farmer protests of 2021-22). When the government began to target\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>, it was part of this broad assault on the media. That broader attack prepared the journalist associations to respond clearly when the Delhi Police arrested Purkayastha and Chakraborty. The Press Club of India\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0that its reporters were \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d about the events, while the Editor\u2019s Guild of India\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that the government must \u201cnot create a general atmosphere of intimidation under the shadow of draconian laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

Role of the New York Times<\/b><\/h3>\n

In April 2020, the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0ran a\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0with a strong headline about the situation of press freedom in India: \u201cUnder Modi, India\u2019s Press Is Not So Free Anymore.\u201d In that story, the reporters showed how Modi met with owners of the major media houses in March 2020 to\u00a0tell<\/a>\u00a0them to publish \u201cinspiring and positive stories.\u201d When the Indian media began to report the government\u2019s catastrophic response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Modi\u2019s government went to the Supreme Court to\u00a0argue<\/a>\u00a0that all Indian media must \u201cpublish the official version.\u201d The Court denied the government\u2019s request that media must\u00a0only<\/i>\u00a0publish the government view, but instead said that the media\u00a0must<\/i>\u00a0publish the government view alongside other interpretations. Siddharth Vardarajan, editor of\u00a0The Wire<\/i>,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that the court\u2019s order was \u201cunfortunate,\u201d and that it could be seen as \u201cgiving sanction for prior censorship of content in the media.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Indian government\u2019s \u201cadministrative-legal siege\u201d on\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>\u00a0began a few months later because the website had offered independent reporting not only on the COVID-19 pandemic but also on the movement to defend India\u2019s constitution and on the movement of the farmers. Despite repeated searches and interrogations, the various agencies of the Indian government could not find any illegality in the operations of\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>. Vague suggestions about impropriety of funding from overseas fell flat, since\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>\u00a0said that it followed Indian law in its receipt of funds.<\/p>\n

When the case against\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>\u00a0appeared to go cold, the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 in August 2023 \u2013 published an enormously speculative and disparaging\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0against the foundations that provided some of\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>\u2019s funds. The day after the story appeared, high officials of the Indian government went on a rampage against\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>, using the story as \u201cevidence\u201d of a crime. The\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0had been\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0previously that this kind of story would be used by the Indian government to suppress press freedom. Indeed, the story by the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0provided the Indian government with the credibility to try and shut down\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>, which is what they are now doing with the IT department\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

Upside down world<\/b><\/h3>\n

The 141 members of parliament are accused of trying to justify a breach of the parliament that took place on December 13. Two men jumped from the press gallery into the hall and released smoke canisters to\u00a0protest<\/a>\u00a0the failure of the elected officials to debate issues of inflation, unemployment, and ethnic violence in Manipur. The men received passes to enter parliament from Pratap Simha, a parliamentarian of the BJP. He has not been suspended. The BJP used this incident to suspend the opposition parliamentarians because they either did not condemn the incident, or they came out in defense of colleagues who were suspended.<\/p>\n

None of the\u00a0men<\/a>\u00a0who held the smoke bombs in parliament have a political background, let alone any linkage to the opposition. Manoranjan D lost his job in an internet firm and had to return to assist his family work their farm; Sagar Sharma drove a taxi after he had to drop out of school due to financial problems at home. Azad had an MA, a Med, and an MPhil, but could not find a job. These are young men frustrated with Modi\u2019s India, but with no political connections. They tried to use normal democratic means to be heard but were not successful. Their act is one of desperation, a symptom of a broader social crisis; the suspension of the parliamentarians and the attack at\u00a0NewsClick<\/i>\u2019s finances are also symptoms of that crisis: the suffocation of democracy in India.<\/p>\n

Vijay Prashad<\/i><\/b>\u00a0is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter. He is an editor of<\/i>\u00a0LeftWord Books<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and the director of<\/i>\u00a0Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research<\/i><\/a>. He has written more than 20 books, including<\/i>\u00a0The Darker Nations<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and<\/i>\u00a0The Poorer Nations<\/i><\/a>. His latest books are<\/i>\u00a0Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and (with Noam Chomsky)<\/i>\u00a0The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Courtesy:\u00a0Peoples Dispatch<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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