Yesterday, for the third day in a row, hundreds of journalists gathered in a football stadium in Maharashtra’s Nagpur to hold a protest. To coincide with the winter session of the Maharashtra assembly, they held a symbolic fast while wearing black ribbons and praising stalwarts who supported press freedom like Gandhi and Ambedkar.
Organised by Voice of Media, a pan-India body working for the welfare of journalists, the protesters had a list of 15 demands from the state government. These include counting digital journalists as working journalists, implementing a law to prevent violence against journalists, and creating provisions for employment opportunities for their children.
