Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday strongly condemned the first information reports registered against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and six senior journalists over the violence during the farmers’ tractor rally in Delhi on Republic Day.
Mr. Gehlot said the FIRs were “clearly an attempt to intimidate and harass” the Opposition as well as the media. “Systematic targeting of [the] Opposition and media goes against every norm of democracy,” Mr. Gehlot tweeted.
The FIRs against Mr. Tharoor and senior editors and journalists have been registered in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh on the charges of spreading disharmony and promoting hatred and ill will. The Uttar Pradesh FIR, registered by the Noida police, has slapped sedition charges on Mr. Tharoor and others.
