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Leader of the Opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin connected Saturday (June 20, 2026) urged Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker J.C.D. Prabhakar to instrumentality steps to guarantee the unrecorded telecast of the proceedings of the State Assembly.
“If the proceedings are not telecast live, it volition decision the precise intent of convening the Assembly league and amusement a deficiency of respect for the radical who formed their votes. Do not bash thing that would insult the Assembly and its members,” helium said successful a missive to the Speaker.
Mr. Udhayanidhi said helium and leaders of different governmental parties are scheduled to enactment successful the treatment connected the question of acknowledgment to the Governor’s Address connected Monday (June 22).
Mr. Udhayanidhi said that though Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay had promised that Assembly proceedings would beryllium telecast live, the treatment connected the Governor’s Address was not carried live.
Recalling Information Minister Rajmohan’s assertion that the Chief Minister had fulfilled his committedness by resuming the unrecorded telecast of Assembly proceedings, which helium claimed had allegedly been blacked retired implicit the erstwhile 2 to 3 years, Mr. Udhayanidhi said the telecast was stopped connected the precise time the Minister made the announcement.
He pointed retired that portion the statement connected the solution opposing the operation of a dam astatine Mekedatu was telecast live, the telecast was discontinued erstwhile the treatment connected the Governor’s Address began.
“This is contrary to the committedness made by the ruling party. It amounts to suppressing the dependable of the people’s representatives and does not augur good for the dignity and decorum of the House,” helium said.
Mr. Udhayanidhi further alleged that an adjacent greater injustice had been committed by releasing edited versions of the debates that favoured the ruling party.
“It is an enactment of suppressing the state of look of MLAs. It is not bully for democracy,” helium said.
He questioned whether suppressing the voices of MLAs could beryllium described arsenic the “change” promised by those who came to powerfulness connected that slogan.
“Suppressing the voices of MLAs is an insult to the people. Preventing the nationalist from knowing the views of their representatives amounts to pushing ideology into darkness,” helium said.
Mr. Udhayanidhi besides alleged that expecting the media to telecast lone the clips supplied by the authorities reflected a fascist attitude.
