TN crisis: No live telecast, transistor disconnected

Journalists who have been camping at the Tamil Nadu assembly have alleged a total media blackout, with no live telecast, and the audio being disconnected

With no live transmission of the proceeding of the Tamil Nadu assembly where Chief Minister Palanisamy moved the confidence motion, journalists are dependent on a transistor to keep track of what is happening behind closed doors.

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Reports from the assembly claim that phones are not being allowed inside the assembly and hence they are forced to resort to the press room. In the media room, all they have is a transistor to convey to them the audio of assembly proceedings.

Some journalists took to social media to complain of audio to the transistor being cut off. Behind closed doors, with no cameras to telecast what really is happening in the assembly and those inside having no means to update news on the proceedings it is a long wait. Within minutes of the special assembly session began, reports of drama inside the house emerged.

Earlier, arguments broke out between journalists and security personnel deployed at the secretariat after the former were denied entry into the assembly premises. The deliberate attempt by the government to cut off all means of communication to journalists reporting on the assembly proceedings has received massive backlash.

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