In her resignation letter, accessed by NDTV, Mukhim gave the instance of how the journalists' body responded with "alacrity", and issued a press release condemning TV news anchor Arnab Goswami's arrest but didn't issue any statement in her case.
Last week, the Meghalaya supreme court had refused to act over a police complaint filed against her for a Facebook post she had put call at July.Mukhim claimed that she had briefed the highest journalists' body intimately about this case. "I now wish to resign from its membership. There are several reasons for doing so. First, as a journalist, i do not belong thereto
august league of celebrity editors whose newspapers are widely read and
web-based news portals are hugely popular," she said in her letter.
"I come from the fringes both geographically and in terms of my very own status in an association I consider hierarchical by its very composition. I had shared this supreme court order with the Guild hoping that it might a minimum of give out a press release condemning it but there was and has been complete silence from the chief ," she added.On July 4, during a Facebook post, Ms Mukhim had criticised the Lawsohtun village council for failing to spot the "murderous elements", when masked people attacked five boys at a court within the village. nobody was arrested within the case.
She had asked Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma and therefore the Dorbar Shnong, the normal local body, to require action against the accused.
The village council in Meghalaya filed a complaint against Ms Mukhim for allegedly trying to discover sentiments.Based on this, the police filed a criminal case against her. She was also accused of defamation.Later, she approached the supreme court to cancel the case against her. Mukhim has now decided to challenge the supreme court order within the Supreme Court.
"Clearly this is often also a case of prejudice and a deliberate plan to push those within the margins even further away in order that they disappear completely from the national discourse (since the Guild may be a national association of editors) and leave them to affect the matter in their personal capacity. A Facebook post is additionally another sort of media to draw attention to a significant issue. it's going to not be a purely 'journalistic' pursuit but it still may be a platform of communication which is taken seriously by the powers that be, hence an FIR (First Information Report) being filed due to it," she further wrote to the journalists' body in her resignation letter.
"I come from the fringes both geographically and in terms of my very own status in an association I consider hierarchical by its very composition. I had shared this supreme court order with the Guild hoping that it might a minimum of give out a press release condemning it but there was and has been complete silence from the chief ," she added.On July 4, during a Facebook post, Ms Mukhim had criticised the Lawsohtun village council for failing to spot the "murderous elements", when masked people attacked five boys at a court within the village. nobody was arrested within the case.
She had asked Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma and therefore the Dorbar Shnong, the normal local body, to require action against the accused.
The village council in Meghalaya filed a complaint against Ms Mukhim for allegedly trying to discover sentiments.Based on this, the police filed a criminal case against her. She was also accused of defamation.Later, she approached the supreme court to cancel the case against her. Mukhim has now decided to challenge the supreme court order within the Supreme Court.
"Clearly this is often also a case of prejudice and a deliberate plan to push those within the margins even further away in order that they disappear completely from the national discourse (since the Guild may be a national association of editors) and leave them to affect the matter in their personal capacity. A Facebook post is additionally another sort of media to draw attention to a significant issue. it's going to not be a purely 'journalistic' pursuit but it still may be a platform of communication which is taken seriously by the powers that be, hence an FIR (First Information Report) being filed due to it," she further wrote to the journalists' body in her resignation letter.
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