Protests in front of Doordarshan over RSS chief speech

Chennai: Over 500 persons, including women and children, belonging to Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamat, today protested in front of the Doordarshan office here and shouted slogans against BJP for using the channel as a platform to telecast live RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s speech.

"Doordarshan is part of the government machinery and it cannot be used for promoting any party's ideology. Doordarshan has a legacy of being neutral and now they have lost that," Mohammad Yusuf of Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamat told reporters.

The protesters held placards and also raised slogans against BJP and Doordarshan for telecasting the speech live. A controversy broke out over the live telecast by the national broadcaster of the RSS chief's address at Nagpur on October 3, with Congress and Left parties slamming the ‘misuse’ of Doordarshan.