Tripura CPM mouthpiece ‘shut down’

AGARTALA: The publication of ‘

Daily Desher Katha

’, CPM’s mouthpiece in

Tripura

, was suspended from Tuesday after the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI) withdrew its certificate of registration on Monday.


The newspaper was founded on August 15, 1979, under the ownership of CPM. The first Left Front government in Tripura came to power in 1978 with Nripen Chakrabarty as CM.

Disposing of a complaint against the publication, West Tripura district magistrate Sandeep Mahatme recommended that RNI suspend the publication for concealing names of the owner and editor, and not declaring new ownership. The order stated that the details do not match RNI records. Moreover, the newspaper’s ownership was changed without informing the RNI ahead of the last assembly polls.

CPM accused Mahatme of implementing a decision of the ruling BJP. CPM spokesperson and the newspaper’s former editor, Gautam Das, on Tuesday described the de-registration as “totally illegal, politically motivated and anti-democratic”. He threatened to move an appropriate forum to resume its printing. In May this year, one Shymal Debnath of Mohanpur had lodged a complaint that the paper was being published “illegally” and a probe later revealed discrepancies.

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