Frequently under attack from various elements while discharging their duty in the troubled state, Assam journalists have called upon the government and all the political parties to take steps to enact a special law for protection of media persons on duty. It was decided at a meeting of various journalists unions at the Guwahati Press Club.
The decision was taken in the wake of attacks and assault on scribes on duty in Assam on August 28, the day when the All Assam Minority Students' Union called for a statewide bandh in protest against violent clashes between Bodo tribals and Muslims in the Bodo Territorial Autonomous District