New Delhi: Delhi University’s Hindu College on Tuesday (April 18) organised the ‘COMPASS-2023’ programme whereby India TV’s chairman and Editor-In-Chief Rajat Sharma was invited because the chief visitor. The programme was named ‘Learning With Legends’. In this programme, he narrated many heard and unheard tales about India TV’s iconic present ‘Aap Ki Adalat.’ During this, Rajat Sharma shared some incidents associated to his life through the Emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi-led Congress authorities.
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‘Started a newspaper at the age of 16-17…’
Addressing the scholars, Mr Sharma revealed a narrative associated to the Emergency, which he claimed that he doesn’t share fairly often. When the Emergency was imposed in 1975, I was half of the scholar motion that fought for the freedom of expression. Usually, I don’t share this stuff, however throughout that point all of the leaders have been put in jail. Newspapers have been censored… sloganeering was not allowed on the road and all the scholar leaders have been arrested and put in jails,” he said. “At the age of 16-17 (through the Emergency), I had began a newspaper named ‘Mashal’ which was within the type of a pamphlet,” Mr Sharma added.
‘Spent 10 months in jail through the Emergency’
Speaking at the programme, Rajat Sharma additional said that he together with Vijay Kumar Goel (now BJP chief) used to distribute these pamphlets at folks’s houses. “One day the police raided, I was caught and tortured for three days. so we know what freedom of the press is…Censorship was imposed on the newspapers. Then I started a newspaper; was beaten up by the police and spent 10 months in jail…. so, no one should explain freedom of expression to me,” he remarked.
