India: Left Parties Condemn RSS broadcast on State TV on 3 October 2014

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CPI attacks government over live telecast of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's speech
Friday, 3 October 2014 - 1:04pm IST | Agency: PTI

CPI on Friday attacked the government over Doordarshan's live telecast of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's Vijaydashmi address saying it was the misuse of the public broadcaster for saffron propaganda.

Party MP D Raja said the government, specifically the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, should give an explanation to the people for allowing DD to be the mouthpiece for the RSS.

He said it was "a disquieting and distressing trend that the country's secular and democratic values were undermined by the government action."
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Doordarshan’s RSS Telecast Condemned

Friday, October 3, 2014

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued
the following statement:

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) condemns the decision of Doordarshan to telecast live the speech of the RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat on the
occasion of Vijaya Dashami. The RSS uses the occasion to propagate its Hindutva ideology.

The national public broadcaster had no business to telecast live the speech of the Chief of an organisation like the RSS. Such an action
shows how the public broadcaster is being misused by the Modi government.