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Kapil Sibal Urges FM to Lift Restrictions’ on Media

[New Delhi]Kapil Sibal Urges FM to Lift Restrictions’ on Media
Former Union minister Kapil Sibal said in Rajya Sabha that the government has been advocating transparency.but entry of Journos
has been restricted in the Finance Ministry
While participating in the discussion on the Budget, the Congress leader said that journalists have the right to enter the Finance Ministry, raise questions and enquire about the data.
He also congratulated Nirmala Sitharaman, who was not in the House, for being the first full-time woman Finance Minister to have presented the budget.
On Wednesday, the Editors Guild described the Finance Ministry restrictions on the entry of media persons into North Block as a “gag” on media freedom and urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to withdraw the “arbitrary decision”.
A clarification issued by the office of the finance minister Tuesday has said a procedure has been put in place for “streamlining and facilitating” the entry of media persons inside the ministry of finance and “no ban is in place” on the entry of media persons in the ministry.
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