{"id":81,"date":"2018-07-11T06:43:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T06:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/populareducation.in\/loksamvad\/?post_type=article&#038;p=81"},"modified":"2018-07-11T06:43:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T06:43:28","slug":"why-media-houses-delete-amit-shah-story","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/populareducation.in\/loksamvad\/article\/why-media-houses-delete-amit-shah-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Why media houses delete Amit Shah story?"},"content":{"rendered":"News websites including Firstpost, New Indian Express, Times Now and News18 took down an Indo-Asian News Service-sourced story about a bank in which BJP president Amit Shah is a director\r\n\r\nHours after it was published, a story about Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah\u2019s links to a district cooperative bank in Gujarat which collected deposits of demonetised \u20b9500 and \u20b91,000 notes totalling \u20b9745.59 crore\u2014within five days of PM Narendra Modi\u2019s announecment of the demonetisation decision\u2014has been taken down by as many as four news websites.None of the websites or their editors have issued any clarification about why the story was taken down.The story by news agency Indo-Asian News Service had reported that the \u201cAhmedabad District Cooperative Bank (ADCB) secured deposits of \u20b9 745.59 crore of the spiked notes\u2014in just five days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the demonetisation announcement\u201d.The Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank received the maximum deposits among all the 370 district cooperative banks in the country, as per the IANS article which was based on a RTI reply received from the Chief General Manager and Appellate Authority, S Saravanavel of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, by RTI activist M Manoranjan S Roy.\u201cAll the district cooperative banks were banned from accepting deposits of the banned currency notes from the public after November 14, 2016\u2014five days after demonetisation\u2014on fears that black money would be laundered through this route,\u201d said the IANS article.\r\n\r\nAmit Shah has been a director of the bank for several years and still holds the position in the bank.Terming the taking down of the article by so many websites \u201cModi government\u2019s crackdown on the media\u201d, the Congress party on June 22 demanded explanation from the PM. AICC Communications in-charge, Randeep Surjewala said, \u201cBy suppressing the media, truth cannot be hidden\u201d at a press conference held at AICC headquarters in Delhi.It is not the first time that a story critical to the BJP president has been removed from a news website. Referring to a story that was published in the Times of India last year, Surjewala said, \u201cA story about 300% increase in the assets of the BJP president was also removed from the paper\u2019s website within hours of being published\u201d. \u201cWas it done under the pressure of Amit Shah too?\u201d asked Surjewala.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News websites including Firstpost, New Indian Express, Times Now and News18 took down an Indo-Asian News Service-sourced story about a bank in which BJP president Amit Shah is a director Hours after it was published, a story about Bharatiya Janata&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"issuem_issue":[4],"class_list":["post-81","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","issuem_issue-june-2018","entry","no-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why media houses delete Amit Shah story? 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