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Ban on English Newspapers in West Bengal State Run Libraries

In West Bengal's 2,482 state run libraries there is a new notice
pasted. There will be no English papers to read. The Trinamool Congress
(TMC) government has banned all English dailies and at least two
leading Bengali newspapers in state funded libraries.

The government circular says "In public
interest, Government will not buy newspapers published or purported to
be published by any political party either national or regional as a
measure to develop free thinking among the readers."

Libraries in Kolkata have already begun displaying the notice saying- following a
government order dated 14 March 2012; only eight newspapers will
henceforth be available.

In the list of newspapers now banned are the names of two leading Bengali dailies, the Ananda Bazar
Patrika and Bartaman; both not owned by political parties.

Ironically,of the 8 newspapers available to readers, Sangbad Pratidin is a Bengali
paper owned by TMC Rajya Sabha (RS) MP Srinjoy Bose. The Associate
Editor is Kunal Ghosh who has just been elected to RS on TMC ticket.

Also on that list is Sanmarg, a Hindi newspaper whose director is Vivek Gupta and Akbar-e-Masriq whose senior journalist is Nadimul Haq. Both Mr Gupta and Mr Haq have just been elected to RS on TMC ticket.The only banned newspaper that is published by a political party is Ganashakti, which is a CPM mouthpiece.

Users of public libraries are already surprised and shocked at this decision
of the state government and suspect newspapers critical of the
government have been banned. "Only papers that are supporting the TMC
are being kept here. We protest this," said Sushanto Seth a regular
visitor at libraries.

The issue was brought up in the state Assembly by a Congress MLA who called the government circular undemocratic and urged the chief minister to have it withdrawn. Mamata
Banerjee was not present in the Assembly at that time.

The minister in charge of public libraries was not available for comments

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