Dasgupta demands Government intervention into UNI affairs

Kolkata, Sep 15 (UNI) CPI Lok Sabha member Gurudas Dasgupta today sought immediate intervention of the UPA Government into the reported transfer of majority share of national news agency UNI to a private media group.

In a letter to Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, Mr Dasgupta apprehended that the takeover by media tycoon Subhash Chandra would lead to largescale retrenchment of employees.

''UNI has so far been maintaining a neutral character in dissemination of news and it has grown from a humble beginning on March 21, 1961 to a national news agency status competing with PTI,'' it said.

''The Government's intervention is immediately solicited to save UNI for ensuring free and fair flow of the news and dissemination of information and to protect the interest of its employees,'' the letter added.

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