Hon’ble Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, Chairman, Press Council of India, NEW DELHI
Respected Chairman,
Sub: Scrutinizing Committee on selection of Press Council of India members from Journalists other than Editors.
It is learned that the Press Council of India (PCI) has constituted a scrutinizing committee for the selection of members from Journalists other than Editors in which Amar Devulapalli of Andhra Pradesh is a member.
But he is a Government employee of Andhra Pradesh as an Adviser, national media and inter-state affairs to Government of Andhra Pradesh with Cabinet rank. So he is holding an office of profit in a State government. That means he is not a working Journalist thus cannot be a member of PCI representing working journalists.
Moreover, he represents the defected group of Indian Journalists Union (IJU) on which a case is going on in the Patiala House Court in New Delhi against his group using the name IJU.
The IJU headed by Mr. B.R. Prajapati as President and I as Secretary General is the premier organization of media persons in the country. But Mr. Amar and others got into PCI by misleading and wrongly presented documents. When 3 States out of the 18 States that had attended the National Executive Committee of IJU at YMCA Hall in New Delhi in 2010 walking out cannot make the defected group as the real parent organization in any case.
Since he is representing a defected group he will have prejudices against IJU nominees thus he should not be in the scrutinizing committee. Therefore, the IJU request you to reconstitute the scrutinizing committee without Mr. D. Amar.
With kind regards,
Sincerely, G. Prabhakaran, Secretary General, IJU, New Delhi. Feb. 10, 21