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Cartoon on Modi: Popular Tamil magazine Vikatan website blocked
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|February 17, 2025
Within a day of the Tamil Nadu BJP petitioning L Murugan, Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, seeking action against the popular magazine Vikatan for what it called an offensive cartoon against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on its cover, the magazine's website was blocked.
The website was blocked late on Friday night, inviting condemnation from across the political spectrum, with Chief Minister MK Stalin leading the state in condemning it as yet another example of the fascistic nature of the BJP and contending that it ill bodes for democracy.
Demanding immediate restoration of the website, the Chief Minister in a social media post wrote: "Blocking media outlets for airing contrarian views bodes ill for democracy. It is yet another instance of the BJP exposing its fascist face." DMK allies, including Vaiko, MP and others have condemned it.
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