Journalists will assemble at the Marathi Patrakar Sangh to protest government inaction over their demands

Around a hundred journalists from 16 news organisations across the state will begin an indefinite hunger strike at the Marathi Patrakar Sangh today to protest government inaction regarding their demands of a CBI inquiry into the murder of MiD DAY reporter J Dey and the passage of an ordinance on categorising attacks on journalists as cognisable and non-bailable offences.

Media personnel from across the spectrum had marched from the Sangh office near CST to Mantralaya on Monday with a charter of demands following Dey's murder, but were disappointed at the CM being non-committal on these issues.
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They had then issued a 48-hour ultimatum for going on a chain hunger strike, which expired last night.

Kiran Naik, convenor of the Committee Against Attacks on Journalists, said, "Today, representatives from various news organisations will sit on a fast between 9 am and 5 pm.
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We are expecting around 100 people."u00a0 Naik added that journalists from other set-ups would join the fast tomorrow and continue until their demands are met.