Pro-BNP journalists have demanded cancellation of the National Broadcast Policy that the Cabinet approved on Monday.
Published : 05 Aug 2014, 07:26 PM
At a protest rally in front of the National Press Club on Tuesday, they urged the pro-ruling party journalists to join the agitations against the policy claiming that when in force, it would curb media freedom.
The journalists burned a copy of the policy and announced a month-long programme in protest against it.
Shaukat Mahmood, President of the pro-BNP faction of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), said: “The journalist community won’t accept this policy. This policy has been formulated to stop anti-government statements.”