Srinagar, Oct 29: National Conference (NC) MLA from Zadibal, Tanvir Sadiq, on Wednesday asked the government to explain the discrimination under which advertisements were denied to the newspapers and digital platforms.

Speaking during the Zero Hour in the House, Sadiq termed the media as the fourth pillar of democracy, but said that the freedom of the press was sabotaged due to the continuous suspension of advertisements to the newspapers.

“If these newspapers are anti-national, then close them; if not, then why are these media houses given ill treatment by the administration?” he said.

Sadiq said that the government advertisements to these newspapers had been stopped for the last five years for “unknown reasons”.

“The organisations include Greater Kashmir, Kashmir Times, Early Times,

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