Kashmir: Journalists protest lack of facilities to cover DDC vote counting

Mediapersons reporting on the District Development Council elections in north Kashmir’s Bandipora on Tuesday staged a sit-in protest against the local administration for “failing to provide adequate facilities to cover the election results”, Greater Kashmir reported.

“There are no proper arrangements for the media and we are being made to move from pillar to post from early morning,” Mohammad Syed Beigh, president of the Bandipora Journalists Association, told the newspaper, adding that the only provision was a “television running a news channel”. This was a “crude joke”, the protesting journalists said.

Inayat Hajini, president of the media association in Sumbal, a tehsil in Bandipora district, said journalists there walked out of the counting centre in protest so that “the media gets better treatment in future”.