News Papers like Vartha Bharati, upholding Constitutional ethos are need of the hour: Dr. KP Ashwini
Vartha Bharati's 20th annual special issue released
Bengaluru: The 20th special annual edition of Vartha Bharathi was released on Saturday morning by Dr K P Ashwini from Benagluru, the first Asian expert selected to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Addressing the program held at the Vartha Bharati office in the city, Dr Ashwini lauded the efforts of Vartha Bharati in upholding Constitutional ethos by giving priority to equality, liberty, fraternity and harmony.
“It is extremely important at the current juncture that print media plays a very responsible role in terms of making people conscious. Developing social consciousness and political consciousness particularly the youth is a major responsibility of the print media. Media is not an easy challenge but a huge ocean that one has to navigate through, with regard to finances and establishment support among other things,” she said.
“I believe that Vartha Bharati has tried to navigate all these challenges and has emerged as one of the prominent newspapers with genuine concern towards marginalized communities, especially the Adivasi, the Dalit and the minority communities. When we look at the variety of issues that have been focused on, including gender-related matters, policy-making, international, national and state news, we find that Vartha Bharati is not limited to our nation or our state. People of many other countries too read Vartha Bharathi and they have an extreme positive and progressive opinion about the newspaper,” Dr Ashwini added.
“It is the need of the hour to have a newspaper like Vartha Bharathi, which reflects the most fundamentals of the Indian Constitution,” she stressed.
“I wish a very great success to Vartha Bharati in the coming years,” she said, adding that it was an honour for her to release the 20th annual edition of the journal.
Vartha Bharati editor-in-chief Abdussalam Puthige, retired officer Prasanna Kumar, director of Vartha Bharati S M Ali, columnist Girish Kote, entrepreneur Sadique Puthige, Bengaluru bureau chief Prakash C Ramajogihalli and others attended the program.
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Vijay unable to prove majority, not invited for CM oath ceremony: Sources
Chennai: Actor-politician Vijay has reportedly not been invited to take oath as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu after failing to demonstrate support from the required number of MLAs, sources in Raj Bhavan said.
According to media reports that quoted sources in the office of R.N. Ravi Arlekar, Vijay could not prove the backing of 118 legislators, the majority mark in the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly.
Despite last-minute efforts to secure support from the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazagam (AMMK), and an IUML legislator, Vijay reportedly managed support from only 116 MLAs, falling short by two members.
Sources said Vijay failed to submit letters of support from the VCK and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).
Later, the IUML issued a statement clarifying that it was not part of the TVK-led alliance.
Meanwhile, AMMK leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran is also said to have informed the Governor that his party would support the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) instead.
Earlier in the evening, Vijay had met Governor Arlekar and staked claim to form the government, stating that he enjoyed the support of 118 MLAs.
