The people must remain ignorant.

Common Cause, a NGO has filed a Public Interest Litigation in front of the Supreme Court challenging the ban on news broadcasts by private FM channels. Only the government owned channel Prasar Bharati has the license. Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka do not restrict private channels from broadcasting news and current affairs. " India is perhaps the only democratic country in the world where the dissemination of news and current affairs programmes on the radio remains a monopoly of the government-owned broadcaster," argued advocate Prashant Bhushan. Wrong. India is definitely not a democracy. It is a police state run by political gangs, controlled by mafia families, for their own benefit. Criminals and cockroaches love the dark which conceals their repulsive presence. Not just radio. Our government tries its best to censor the internet. According to Google India is second only to the US to ask for information on accounts of users and for removal of any criticism of the government. In the recent stampede on a bridge leading to a temple at Datia in Madhya Pradesh police threw dead and living people into the swollen river. Eye witnesses insist that not only were the police were robbing dead bodies and then throwing them into the river to decrease mortality rates but they threw living people, including children, into the river. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry is right in claiming," What is material is the way of presentation. The same event can be sensationalized or put in a sober manner taking care of the sentiments and sensitivities involved." Absolutely. If a private channel were to broadcast the truth with eye witness accounts people would be outraged and may resort to rioting. With the government controlling news everything can be sterilised until it appears in newspapers and since vast numbers of people cannot read the event can be suppressed. See what trouble Edward Snowden has caused, and is still causing, the US government. The Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff has cancelled a state visit to the US to show her anger at the National Security Agency spying on Brazilians and yesterday the American ambassador to France was called for a dressing down. What did our government do? Our most revered Foreign Minister actually defended the US spying on Indians. Let other countries spy on our citizens. As long as the people stay ignorant the politicians are safe.