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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 266: Howrahâs Ram Navami violence, Madhya Pradesh recruitment scam
Description: This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundryâs Prateek Goyal and freelance journalist Snigdhendu Bhattacharya. Snigdhendu had reported on the Ram Navami violence in Howrah and how the Hindutva outfits that had organised rallies âwent against the set guidelinesâ issued by the police. He says large-scale celebrations of this sort intensified in the state only in the last five or six years, coinciding with the rise of the RSS and BJP.Prateek then explains his report on how the Madhya Pradesh government skipped procedure to recruit people close to the RSS for gov...