Indian media did not have such a restrictive situation it is facing now even during the Emergency when press censorship was in force, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) Malappuram district president Syed Sadiqali Shihab Thangal has said.
He was opening a seminar organised by the Muslim Youth League (MYL) here on Sunday on ‘Curtailing of citizens’ rights against the backdrop of the ban on MediaOne news channel’.
“There was a famous cartoon by Abu on how then President Fakhruddin Ali Ahamed signed the Emergency proclamation. He is seen doing it in a bathroom. He was naked there. But such cartoons criticising then President and the Prime Minister saw the light of day during then,” Thangal said.
