Amritsar, Punjab (December 03, 2012):
Dal Khalsa has expressed its displeasure as to why Indian media has not
taken Gujarat CM Narendra Modi to task for his refusal to allot tickets
to Muslims.
‘Modi’s big No to Muslims have gone
unattended and unnoticed’, said party’s political secretary Kanwar Pal
Singh in a statement. “There has been no strong reaction (barring few
reports) from the media houses. Why there has been no editorial,
articles and analysis on OPED pages by this time, he asked and added
that “this is because media is biased towards the minorities”, alleges
Kanwar Pal Singh.
To drive his point home, he said there
was consistent and sharp campaign in selective media during the run-up
to the Punjab assembly elections in Feb to ensure that Badals do “allot
tickets” to non-Sikhs. And once it was done and the SAD chooses ten
non-Sikh candidates to contest elections from its platform, the media
eulogized Badal for being “secular”, said he.
It’s ironic that the Punjab has been the
only state where media dictates terms to SAD especially the Badals
forcing them to “follow the specific agenda”. However, he accepted that
Badals lack acumen and they do get carried away by media hype.
He wondered why this time media has not
yet described Modi as “threat to secularism’. He urged the chairman of
the Press council Justice Katuja to take note of this bias of the Indian
media.