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Parties urged to specify agenda regarding media in their manifestos

PUNJAB NEWS EXPRESS | January 20, 2022 06:50 PM

RUPNAGAR: District Press Clubs Association, Rupnagar president Bahadurjit Singh has urged all the political parties to specify their agenda regarding media and media persons in their election manifestos for the assembly elections in Punjab.

In a statement he said that it was observed that the political parties include their agenda regarding various sections of society in their election manifestos but media and media persons were by an large ignored.

He said that media were the fourth pillar of the democracy and its was the duty of the political parties to specify their agenda regarding facilities to be provided ti media and media persons after coming in to power, in their election manifestos so that media persons could serve the common people in more effective manner.

He expressed the hope that political parties would pay attention towards his appeal.

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