‘India is governed by Rule of Law,’ IPS Association slams ‘anti-India’ New York Times, tells it to go back to basics

The IPS Association, has “strongly condemned” an article by The New York Times (NYT), for its “effort to denigrate and defame Indian Institutions”. The NYT, in an article written by Jeffrey Gettleman, Sameer Yasir, Suhasini Raj and Hari Kumar- the New Delhi based team of the newspaper- tried to blame Delhi Police’s inaction as reason behind riots, and also insinuated that the police helped the Hindus.

The article, titled ‘How Delhi’s Police Turned Against Muslims’, was slammed by the IPS Association for “biased reporting, dangerous innuendo and outright lies”. The association released a detailed one page comment on the article which said that, “India is governed by law, no one has immunity from killing anyone!”

The international media organisations like The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and BBC have tried to defame the Modi government in the last few months, especially since the abrogation of Article 370. Given their liberal bias, these media organisations waged an ideological war against the Modi government.

In order to defame Modi government, the media organisations have criticized the whole Indian political setup, including the most unbiased institutions like Judiciary. The international media, in order further the ‘liberal’ agenda and defame the conservative government, has tried to defame India, through their one sided reporting.

The IPS Association replied to New York Times in very strong words and wrote, “It is easy to cast aspersions on Police but here is a reminder that 2 security personnel have lost their lives in the riots and more than 70 were injured. India’s Police forces will keep doing their duty and ensure every Indian is protected.”

This is not the first time that an Indian association or an individual came with hard hitting response to the outright lies and agenda of international media. Previously, in a stinging rejection to the international media, Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati turned down a BBC invitation over their anti-India coverage.

Vempati rejected the invite for an event to mark the occasion of International Women’s Day and sent a letter to the BBC where he claimed that the British broadcaster’s ground reports were “damningly silent” on “murderous and targeted” assaults on the men in uniform. He also communicated to the BBC that their biased coverage only vitiated the atmosphere further while slamming them for not respecting India’s sovereignty.

The global media is in an overdrive as far as the attempts of creating a sham of anti-Muslim pogrom out of the Delhi riots is concerned. Not a single report in prominent international media has done justice to the riots that wreaked havoc in the streets of Delhi, and while some have resorted to one-sided agenda based reporting, others have resorted to outright lying and this sets a very worrying tone for Indians who care for the truth.

Ever since the turn of the century, communism and socialism are rapidly falling out of favour with countries like Brazil who were ruled by communist parties since long, overthrowing the communist regime and opting for the far-right Jair Bolsonaro. The ideology might have been rejected by the world populace in general however, international media outlets continue to romanticise the ideology and running propaganda pieces against those who dared to pulverise communism with case in point being Narendra Modi and Donald Trump.