Kapil Sibal says ‘government shut down a TV channel I financed’
Kapil Sibal.
While speaking at a debate on “Do Liberals Stifle Debate” on the last day of Jaipur Literature Festival, on Monday, Congress leader Kapil Sibal accused the government of shutting down a television channel financed by him.
He said, “I’m trying to finance a channel, to set up a channel called ‘Harvest’. Now we’ve been trying to get a licence, (but) this government doesn’t want to give us a licence. We got a licence ultimately. Then this afternoon, suddenly it was shut down. They called up TataSky and said don’t put this channel on air. We’ve been trying to persuade TataSky (to) allow us to come on air. This is all happening … I’m talking about how dissent is stifled, how people are not allowed to speak, how people are not allowed freedom of speech — as you know it is a fundamental right.”
When he was asked if he is accusing the government for shutting down the channel deliberately, he said, “I’ve said so.”
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