The Uttar Pradesh authorities, dealing with flak over its new social media coverage, got here underneath assault from Congress Normal Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday, as she mocked the scheme as a ‘regressive and self-eulogizing’ transfer. Priyanka Gandhi, taking to X, shared a satirical publish, saying “You’ll say what you want. Should you name day as evening, it will likely be evening.” Firing a volley of questions, she questioned the state authorities on making certain the safety of ladies and in addition requested what steps it has taken to resolve the recruitment reservation case, regarding 69,000 lecturers.
“Wherein class will the voices of ladies looking for justice fall within the social media coverage of the Uttar Pradesh authorities? Wherein class will the questions raised within the 69000 trainer recruitment reservation rip-off fall? Wherein class would exposing the BJP authorities by BJP leaders and MLAs fall?” requested Priyanka Gandhi.
Notably, two ladies had been discovered hanging from a tree in Farrukhabad district on Wednesday, sending shockwaves within the metropolis and leaving the state administration looking for solutions. The Congress chief additional accused the Yogi Adityanath authorities of stifling the liberty of speech and suppressing the reality by issuing such ‘diktats’.
She stated that the state authorities fairly than resolving individuals’s points was discovering ‘new methods’ to suppress the reality. “The coverage of ‘in the event you name day as evening, then it’s evening or else jail’ is one other manner of suppressing the reality. Can the BJP not consider something greater than crushing democracy and the Structure?” she additional stated.
The UP cupboard on Wednesday gave nod to Uttar Pradesh Digital Media Coverage 2024, which broadly has two parts — one is encouragement for popularising the federal government’s schemes whereas one other is about crackdown for objectionable and offensive posts on social media.
Quickly after the coverage particulars filtered into the general public area, Opposition events cried foul and claimed that it was a blatant try to quell freedom of speech as this is able to enable the state administration to ‘torture and terrorise’ individuals even for talking the reality.
