Doordarshan defends its broadcast of RSS speech

October 03, 2014 15:22

Amid a controversy over the national broadcaster telecasting live a speech of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, Doordarshan today said it was covered like any other news event and no special arrangements had been made.

"It was just like a news event to us. So we covered it," Doordarshan's director-general (news) Archana Dutta said, after the DD's hour-long live telecast of an RSS function for the first time came under attack from the Congress and the Left which accused the government of misusing the state broadcaster.

She said that there was "no special arrangement" that had been made for the event and one of the several Digital Satellite News gathering vans that the broadcaster has in Maharashtra for coverage of the state elections was used for the event.

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