
In the alleged targeting of Asianet News in Kerala and the CPM leadership’s failure to condemn it, the party and the Pinarayi Vijayan government’s relationship with the media is now back in focus.
On Sunday, the crime branch searched Asianet News Kozhikode office over a complaint from a CPM-backed Independent MLA. This came two days after the Students’ Federation of India, the student wing of the governing party in Kerala, barged into the Malayalam news channel’s Kochi office.